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"O Villain, Villain, Smiling Damned Villain!" Hamlet's opinion of his uncle is quite clear, but for a large part of the play it is not a view, which is shared by an audience. To what extent do you agree with the above
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"O Villain, Villain, Smiling Damned Villain!" Hamlet's opinion of his uncle is quite clear, but for a large part of the play it is not a view, which is shared by an audience. To what extent do you agree with the above? Hamlet's opinion of his uncle is very clear: he hates Claudius as Hamlet thinks that he had murdered his father. But everything becomes equally clear at the end of the play when it is very evident that Claudius has killed his father. So the audience will naturally dislike Claudius as well. An Elizabethan audience, who would have actually watched the play, would have seen Claudius as a bad character from the start of the play. Mainly because he married his recently dead brother's wife; this marriage would have been seen as "incestuous". But to the other type of audience, which would be that of today, the marriage would not have been...
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