Examples Of Bad Karma In Hamlet

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Throughout Hamlet, there is what seems like endless actions that result in bad karma. From deaths, to poisonings resulting in deaths, to even suicide, of course, resulting in death.
Claudius, Hamlet, Gertrude, Laertes and Polonius all losing a loved one and dying due to bad karma. However there was one character in the play who lived, which was a result of good karma, as he never betrayed or thought to harm anyone else. In Hamlet, all but one of the characters learn that karma will always prove to bring onto them what they've done to others, with the exception of Horatio, who is an example of having good karma instead of bad karma. As the play developed throughout each of the scenes, more and more, Shakespeare portrayed each