Essay --

Shakespeares Hamlet (1603) is one of the most popular dramas in world literature, as it examines the intensely passionate, but poisonous ambitions of King Claudius. He murders his own brother, King Hamlet, because he desires his throne, power, and wife. As a result of King Claudius fratricide, he inherits the primal eldest curse of the biblical Cain and Abel, and the dispersion of poison lethally ends his relationship with several major characters. This includes, of course, Prince Hamlet, who falls into a suicidal depression over the goal of his father whose ghost visits him. This essay will analyze Shakespeares trope of poison, embodied by King Claudius.King Hamlet was a magnanimous man, with many an(prenominal) different ambitions but before he could successfully complete any of the ambitions, he was the victim of fratricide. Claudius, King Hamlets brother poisoned the king in ear while he was sleeping the in the Garden of Eden, he did this so he could be the one to take over the throne. Claudius was very grasping of his brother. As he is very alike the Biblical figures Cain and Abel, when...