The Plaguing Facades In William Shakespeare's Hamlet

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The plaguing facades. It has become indented into human nature to react individually to elements that surround us, this causes a fatal flaw in genetics, all of our natural instics are mirrors to the person next to us; In the instance of Hamlet, rather than reacting to the spreading facades,, he too, adapted into wearing one. In William Shakespeare's Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, a plague of facades spreads, starting with King Claudius until it affected Denmark in its entirety. To find deception in the play, look no farther than King Claudius who murders his own brother and subsequently becomes the ruler over Denmark, robbing Hamlet of his father and the chance to rule.“That one may smile, and smile, and be a villain” (1.5.105-109 ). However, the only people who know about his treason are Hamlet and Horatio. Throughout the entire play, King Claudius portrays himself to his disciples as a kind and courteous King. “Though yet of Hamlet our dear brother’s death … to bear our hearts in grief … therefore our sometime sister, now our queen” (1.2.1). As King Claudius addresses the court, he includes words such as ‘our’ and ‘we’ to create a feeling of unity and closeness amongst the court; yet by doing this Claudius deceives his people, making it seem as if he …show more content…
However, Hamlet suspects Claudius was the one hiding behind the arrasnot Polonius, and he has good reason too as well, since they are in his mothers’ bedroom. Yet, he soon realizes that it was Polonius- not Claudius hiding behind the curtain, once in inspects the dead body. Polonius could have evaded hsi own death and lived unscathed except he beocmes caught up in spy plots and he worries over pleasing the King to often. Polonius lets himself become a pawn to the King, and in dong so, he puts himself at the wrong place at the wrong
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