ius sent Hamlet to England to ensure his safety. Claudius claimed that this would be a good way of restoring his sanity, and hiding him from those angered by him killing Polonius. However, the fact that he wants Hamlet killed shows otherwise. It shows his motives behind sending Hamlet to England were purely evil. They backfire and ultimately end in the deaths of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. Trying to hide his increasing evident guilt, Claudius creates this treacherous plan that eventually ends disastrously and tragically. Later, Claudius once again conspires a devious plan to kill Hamlet, except with Laertes this time. His scheming plot here is more complex however, when he doesn't make just one, but two plans to insure Hamlet's death.
             KING CLAUDIUS: To thine own peace. If he be now return'd,
             As checking at his voyage, and that he means
             No more to undertake it, I will work him
             To an exploit, now ripe in my device
             Under the which he shall not choose but fall:
             And for his death no wind of blame shall breathe,
             But even his mother shall uncharge the practise
             And call it accident.
             LAERTES: My lord, I will be ruled;
             The rather, if you could devise it so
             That I might be the organ. (IV, vii, 58-69)
             Claudius' devious conniving character is very clear here. Not only does h
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