Power Vs Happiness

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Term Paper Title	Power Vs Happiness
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Power Vs Happiness

     Claudius what are your motives for killing the king, marrying his wife and taking on the
role of father to his young son?
     Claudius is introduced in act I, ii.  In this scene he has an important speech. In this
speech he talks about the death of the king, his marriage to the queen and the foreign problems
of the state. He utilizes many transitions and tends to empiseze the foreign affairs of the state. I
don't know what to make of this, it could mean various things. It could mean that Claudius is
making a grab for power shown in his concentration on the foreign polices trying to distract from
his lust for power, along with his marriage to the queen giving the change in leadership a
smoother and more acceptable feel. He also down plays the death of the formal king so that he
can redirect the peoples' attention to his plans and the problems of the state. But I could mean
something else I'm not sure. Later on in this scene Claudius talks to Hamlet, Hamlet is very
depressed, Claudius gives hamlet some comforting and fatherly advice here trying to get him out
of his deep depression. But what is his true motivation here is he trying to get hamlet as a backer
for his new rain, so he is just  lying and manipulating hamlet, or dose he have true and deep
feelings for Hamlet and is just trying to help hamlet and was no self-interest in it. I feel right now
that  it a bit of both I think  he cares about hamlet but would also like him to support his rise to
power.

     Next we come to act II, ii,  hamlet has made many strange comments and actions lately,
many people think he is going, or has gone insane. Claudius finds two of Hamlets good friends
to spy on him and try to find out what wrong with him. At this point we know that Hamlet knows
that Claudius killed his father but we don't know whether Claudius knows that hamlet knows or
even if he suspects, this cast a strange light on this scene. First if Claudius suspects hamlet
knows that he killed his father then we might assume that Claudius is sending these spy to find
out for sure if he knows, but if he dose not suspect hamlet then this might be another show of
Claudius's affection towards Hamlet. So the same question keeps coming up dose Claudius like
Hamlet or is he just using him? At this point it to hard to tell so we must delve deeper in to the
story and there is still the mater of the queen. Claudius is marred to the queen but dose he love
here, and was there an affair before their marriage...

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