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Claudius - Coggle Diagram
Claudius
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Issues
Ultimate desire to protect his repitation, maintain his position
Both Hamlet and Claudius 'consequently assault the aristocratic body in attempting to acquire the crown.'
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Cruelity, selfishness,
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Claudius shows himself to be a murderer, manipulator and selfish,
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Critics, more analysis
Wilson Knight - 'Claudius is a good and gentle king, enmeshed by the chain of causality linking him with his crime'
Audiencfe
an ultimate villan I'd say. but typical apperance as an antagonist for a shakesperaran work,
Bad guy, good king?
His willingness to gamble away part of his kingdom suggests he wasn't exactly the terrific king his son remembers.
William Camden - Richard III—another of Shakespeare's tricky kings—was a "bad man, but a good king" MAYBE the same?