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Essay / Hamlet Essay - 1262
The ghost is upset that Claudius is still alive. Claudius finally realized that Hamlet wanted to kill him, so he hatches his own plan of revenge against Hamlet. “Claudius banishes Hamlet to England for the murder of Polonius” (Mabillard 3). As soon as Hamlet arrives on English soil, Claudius plans to have him murdered. Claudius sends Rosencrantz and Guildenstern on the boat with Hamlet with a letter to the King of England; the letter asks him to kill Hamlet (Weller 2). Hamlet intercepts the letter and realizes what is happening: he rewrites the letter saying that Rosencrantz and Guildenstern must be killed (Weller 2). The audience knows that the murder of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern has no consequences for Hamlet because they are not his true friends. Now that Hamlet sees what Claudius had planned, he is eager to finally get revenge on the