FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
HAMLET
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Indecisiveness
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Lack of military power
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International relations
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Moral corruption
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Detailed explanation-1: -Throughout the play, Hamlet, by William Shakespeare, a corrupting disease plagues Denmark and the people within it. The incestuous marriage between Gertrude and Claudius, in addition to murdering King Hamlet, is the main example of deceit, corruption and evil.
Detailed explanation-2: -The first and central occurrence of corruption in Hamlet is the murder of King Hamlet by Claudius and his subsequent usurpation of the Danish. He also marries Gertude, King Hamlet’s former wife. From an Elizabethan perspective, such a marriage would have been considered adultery and incest.
Detailed explanation-3: -In William Shakespeare’s Hamlet, the moral corruption that occurs between family members causes animosity that results in their downfall, and eventually their ultimate demise. More specifically, the tainted view of an individual in a family may result in the downfall of the other family members involved.
Detailed explanation-4: -Throughout the play we can trace a progression of corruption, that leads to death, through ‘disease’ in the characters of Polonius, Claudius and Hamlet. Polonius is perhaps the most obviously corrupt character in Hamlet.