King Claudius' Guilt

King Claudius' Guilt

How does King Claudius show his guilt about his brother’s murder and the consequences of this action?

Act I

Act II

Act III

Act IV

21.“thou mayst not coldly set

Our sovereign process; which imports at full,

By letters congruing to that effect,

The present death of Hamlet. Do it, England;

For like the hectic in my blood he rages,

And thou must cure me: till I know 'tis done,

Howe'er my haps, my joys were ne'er begun” (Scene III, lines 57-63)

Act V

Guilty

15.“My stronger guilt defeats my strong intent;” (Scene III, line 40)

16.“My fault is past. But, O, what form of prayer

Can serve my turn? 'Forgive me my foul murder'?

That cannot be; since I am still possess'd

Of those effects for which I did the murder,

My crown, mine own ambition and my queen.

May one be pardon'd and retain the offence?...” (Scene III, lines 51-56)

14.“O, my offence is rank it smells to heaven;

It hath the primal eldest curse upon't,

A brother's murder” (Scene III, lines 36-38)

17.“Try what repentance can: what can it not?

Yet what can it when one can not repent?...” (Scene III, lines 66-67)

13.“Arm you, I pray you, to this speedy voyage;

For we will fetters put upon this fear,

Which now goes too free-footed.” (Scene III)

12.“I like him not, nor stands it safe with us

To let his madness range. Therefore prepare you;

I your commission will forthwith dispatch,

And he to England shall along with you:

The terms of our estate may not endure

Hazard so dangerous as doth hourly grow

Out of his lunacies.” (Scene III)

11.“Give me some light: away!” (Scene II, line 230)

19.“Alas, how shall this bloody deed be answer'd?

It will be laid to us, whose providence

Should have kept short, restrain'd and out of haunt,

This mad young man: but so much was our love,

We would not understand what was most fit;

But, like the owner of a foul disease,

To keep it from divulging, let it feed

Even on the pith of Life” (Scene I)

20.“Thy loving father, Hamlet” (Scene III, line 46)

10.“Have you heard the argument? Is there no offence in 't?” (Scene II, line 200)

22.“Why, now you speak

Like a good child and a true gentleman.

That I am guiltless of your father's death,

And am most sensible in grief for it,

It shall as level to your judgment pierce

As day does to your eye.” (Scene V)

9.“It shall be so:

Madness in great ones must not unwatch'd go.” (Scene I, lines 179-180)

23.“And where the offence is let the great axe fall.” (Scene V)

8.“[Aside] O, 'tis too true!

How smart a lash that speech doth give my conscience!

The harlot's cheek, beautied with plastering art,

Is not more ugly to the thing that helps it

Than is my deed to my most painted word:

O heavy burthen!” (Scene I, lines 49-54)

24.“Now must your conscience my acquaintance seal,

And you must put me in your heart for friend,

Sith you have heard, and with a knowing ear,

That he which hath your noble father slain

Pursued my life.” (Scene VII , lines 1-5)

25.“And for his death no wind of blame shall breathe,

But even his mother shall uncharge the practise

And call it accident.” (line 64-66)

7.“Her father and myself, lawful espials,

Will so bestow ourselves that, seeing, unseen,

We may of their encounter frankly judge,

And gather by him, as he is behaved,

If 't be the affliction of his love or no

That thus he suffers for.” (Scene I, lines 32-37)

26.“Revenge should have no bound” (Scene VII, line 126)

27.“The king shall drink to Hamlet's better breath;

And in the cup an union shall he throw,

Richer than that which four successive kings

In Denmark's crown have worn” (Scene II)

6.“Something have you heard

Of Hamlet's transformation; so call it,

Sith nor the exterior nor the inward man

Resembles that it was. What it should be,

More than his father's death, that thus hath put him

So much from the understanding of himself,

I cannot dream of:” (Scene II, lines 4-10)

28.“Stay; give me drink. Hamlet, this pearl is thine;

Here's to thy health.”(Scene II)

5.“We pray you, throw to earth

This unprevailing woe, and think of us

As of a father: for let the world take note,

You are the most immediate to our throne;

And with no less nobility of love

Than that which dearest father bears his son,

Do I impart toward you” (Scene II)

29.“Our son shall win” (Scene II)

30.“O, yet defend me, friends; I am but hurt” (Scene II)

1.“Though yet of Hamlet our dear brother's death

The memory be green, and that it us befitted

To bear our hearts in grief and our whole kingdom

To be contracted in one brow of woe,” (Scene II)

2.“Therefore our sometime sister, now our queen,

The imperial jointress to this warlike state,

Have we, as 'twere with a defeated joy,--

With an auspicious and a dropping eye,

With mirth in funeral and with dirge in marriage,

In equal scale weighing delight and dole,--

Taken to wife:” (Scene II)

3. "But now, my cousin Hamlet, and my son,--" (Scene II)

5.“We pray you, throw to earth

This unprevailing woe, and think of us

As of a father: for let the world take note,

You are the most immediate to our throne;

And with no less nobility of love

Than that which dearest father bears his son,

Do I impart toward you” (Scene II)

4.“'Tis sweet and commendable in your nature, Hamlet,

To give these mourning duties to your father:

But, you must know, your father lost a father;

That father lost, lost his, and the survivor bound

In filial obligation for some term

To do obsequious sorrow: but to persevere

In obstinate condolement is a course

Of impious stubbornness;” (Scene II)

Not Guilty