Hamlet spying and deception

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…promise he made to his father. In Hamlet, the theme appearance versus reality, lingers throughout the play, through deception or spying. Each character in the play is a victim or a victimizer and suffers the consequences, realizing that once deception is started it is never really stopped. The deception comes to an end as does the play, after eight unnecessary deaths, which could have been avoided if it were not for deception and then spying.