Death And Corruption In Hamlet

Throughout ‘Hamlet’ we have the images of death, decay, rottenness, and corruption embedded in the story. The imagery that Shakespeare uses in hamlet relates directly with the plots of the play perfectly. The corruptions images are illuminated in the beginning with Claudius own actions. The characters use metaphors of disease in the connection to sickness and rottenness. Within “Hamlet”, Shakespeare makes a number of references to Denmark's tainted state due to the deceitfulness that lies within. Shakespeare uses death and decay to exemplify the death of the characters, and the decay of these characters that comes with those deaths, as well as the decay and death of morals and the death and decay that comes of political corruption of the government
Shakespeare explains the story is that king hamlet was napping in his garden and was stung by a serpent, in actuality Claudius poured poison into the sleeping kings ear, murdering the king and sending him to purgatory since he was not given a opportunity to confess his sins before his death. This scene of deceit also correlated to and biblical story of Adam and eve where the serpent enter the garden and corrupts them both. The ghost reveals truth. Also note that the way Claudius murdered king hamlet, by pouring poison into king hamlet's ear, is actually a perfect metaphor for lying, for using language to hide reality. Poison is illustration of metaphors that Shakespeare commonly uses. It is mentioned a numerous amounts of times in referring to Claudius but it is also used when referring to Denmark's state, "Who this had seen, with tongue in venom steeped against Gainst Fortune's state would treason have pronounced"(act II scene II). The use of poison is such an irony and even avenging justice in the play becomes apparent when Claudius uses poison to kill King Hamlet and in the end, this identical poison kills him, as well as his hamlets mother, Laertes and Hamlet, It is the use of poison that wraps up the story and unravels the ending. Claudius is in so deep that he can't confess reality even to save his queen Gertrude;
One may imply that this is the only theme that would work well and make such a profound effect on the overall storyline. The storyline of death and decay in Hamlet bonds and fuses the whole of the play together. Hamlet was one of Shakespeare most brilliant, but darkest stories. It has looking at morality and mortality. Without death and decay occurring, there would be no Hamlet, since every other theme and idea from the play directs to the two. According to Walter Benjamin in the task of a translator, it would seem to explain adequately the fact that the translation and the original have very different standing in the realm of art; also whether the work is translatable has a dual meaning. Images of corruption, like puns and riddles, relate to Hamlets perception of his world and it is proper to emphasize them because his voice and interpretation of events are so prominent in the play has more in it than the prince: the imagery of corruption, like much else in the play’s language, needs to be seen as closely related to, and in some sense a part of it, a larger structure concerned with seeming and being, with shows and the truths that they conceal, with fair appearance and ugly realities, and with difficulties of interpreting what is seen. For hamlet the puns and riddles are means by which he consciously seeks to