Power Vs. Happeness in Hamlet

Power Vs Happiness         Claudius what are your motives for killing the king, marrying his wife and taking on the role of father to his young son?         Claudius is introduced in act I, ii. In this scene he has an important speech. In this speech he talks about the death of the king, his marriage to the queen and the foreign problems of the state. He utilizes many transitions and tends to empiseze the foreign affairs …

…truly in love, or at least desired to be with, her. and by saying do not drink out loud he was almost admitting his guilt to trying to kill Hamlet all to save the queen, this is powerful and says to me that he did have a heart and I would figure that he just lost control of himself in the pursuit of his dream which was to be all that his brother had been.