hamlet- character: Claudius

Claudius

• - well rounded villain
• a1 s2
• - sly/manipulating/confidant/clever/couteous/good politician/efficient/cunning
• - wants to be liked and accepted, royal we
• - comes across as a kindly man
• - in control
• - insensitive towards hamlets grief and has a lack of respect for hamlet sr.
• a3 s1
• - strong indication of C's guilt
• - decisive about what to do with H

Claudius

• a3 s3
• - h poses a danger and claudius deals with it
• - claudius knows that he is in the wrong, yet does not want to lose the spoils of this wrong
• - he wants to send his words to heaven but his evil thoughts stay with him, no true remorse
• a4 s1
• - not sad about P's death, only worried about public image and the fact that it could have been him
• - trusting of G
• a4 s3
• - manipulative and diplomatic, tries to convince hamlet that he loves him and is doing this for him
• - attempts to ignore H's insults
• - trying to be civil to hamlet
• - paranoid

Claudius

• a4 s5
• - empathetic towards ophelia
• - calmes learns by promising revenge
• a4 s7
• - apathetic towards laertes
• - manipulates L into killing H
• - blunted L's purpose
• a5 s2
• - remains selfish/callouse/apathetic to the end
• - shows no remorse at G's death and tries to cover it up