Hamlet: Act III, Scene I

• King Claudius sees Hamlet as a threat
• Rosencrantz and Guildenstern call his madness forth
• crafty; Hamlet hasn’t given any information away apart from the idea that he is a little off
• King Claudius → confesses to murdering King Hamlet
• Hamlet to Ophelia:
• It’s easier to bend beauty than honesty
• don’t have my kids because I am a sinner
• you’ll never have kids because that’s your best bet at innocence
• you literally paint yourself with makeup that make yourself look like someone else
• different identity
• foreshadow: someone’s going to die
• Ophelia tells Claudius and Polonius that Hamlet’s gone mad
• Claudius opposes, says Hamlet’s not crazy (only that there’s something bothering him) → he’s up to something, a threat to my throne and should therefore be imprisoned