Hamlet’s Deceit
In the play hamlet we see hamlet, a man stuck in a deceitful world. The spies, everybody but Hamlet, need deceit and treachery to live, and without it they would perish. Polonius, perhaps the most underhanded member of the play lives and dies while spying, literally. Other characters spy also to better themselves to certain individual to advance their social status. We see Hamlet, the one honest man left in the bunch, spying his one time to save his very own life. The perceptiveness of Hamlet is short-lived as are all actions in this play save the killing. \"That one may smile, and smile, and be a villain\"(I, v, l.108) This is to be my theme, something that Hamlet discovered and lived by for many a year and scene.
\"Neither a borrower nor a lender be, far loan oft loses both itself a friend\"(I, iii, l.75-76). Experience Polonius has in both fields, for he represents the loathing, scheming men of the world in Hamlet. Polonius is an underhanded man in......
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