Hamlet

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Second example of corruption in Hamlet is the environment he is surrounded by. Claudius killed the King, which was his own brother. The ghost appeared later to his son, Hamlet, and tells him “Revenge his foul and most unnatural murder (1,v)”. This is referring to Claudius, because Horatio told Hamlet that he knew it was Claudius reason being that the play he saw was similar to this incident. Hamlet cried, “O my prophetic soul! mine uncle (1,v)”. Another reason of why Hamlets environment is corrupt is because Claudius, Hamlets uncle, married Hamlet’s mother. Hamlet was talking to his mother and replied when he asked her if he had forgotten about her, “No, by the rood, no so: You are the queen, your husband’s brother’s wife; And,-would it were not so!-you are my mother (3, iv)”. Lastly, corruption is shown through Hamlet because he was suppose to take a drink of poison that was set before him, but instead let his own mother take it for him. As his mother was drinking the poison she cried “No, no, the drink, the drink,-O my dear Hamlet,-The drink, the drink!-I am poison’d”. After she said that she fell over and died. If that is not corrupted that he let his own mother drink it, then nothing is corrupted....