are saying a prayer is not enough, you have to mean it, otherwise it is just a
             waste of your time. Claudius' life was spared, temporarily, because Hamlet did not hear
             Claudius, by the end of the play has caused more than half a dozen deaths, King
             Hamlet, Hamlet, Gertrude, Laertes, Polonius, and himself just to name the main ones. It is
             because of Claudius' scheming that the end of the play is so plagued by death. When you
             look at this side of Claudius it makes it hard to image how he could have ever been a good
             king, if in fact he was a good leader. It was Claudius' obsession for control and power
             The question left to be answered however is this, would Hamlet have made a good
             king? Hamlet possessed many qualities that would have made him a suitable king. First of
             all, his father was the king, so he was royalty and obviously had some knowledge of what
             a king needed to do. Second, he was a smart individual. We see at the beginning of the
             play that he is just coming back from a university in Wittenberg. Throughout the play all
             Hamlet wants to do is go back to the university. It is because of his education that he has
             such a questioning attitude, which plays a hug
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