Post by jin794 on Mar 20, 2016 5:48:54 GMT
Manipulation is an act of attempting to influence the behavior or emotions of others for one’s own purposes and advantages. All individuals in tragic play of Hamlet are vulnerable of manipulation, when a person controls the weaker person’s feelings and thoughts through deceptive and exploitative measures. Claudius’s manipulation in Elsinore is one crucial factor of Elsinore being rotten in the state of Denmark.
In Act II scene ii, Claudius and Gertrude have ordered Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, Hamlet’s childhood friends, to check up on Hamlet and report back to them. Before the two meet Hamlet, they confirm their loyalty to the king and queen and promise to report back to them without Hamlet knowing. Hamlet welcomes Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, but knows that they did not come in the pure interests of companionship, but at the orders of the king and queen. Hamlet is suspicious of their motives from the start and know that their loyalty lies with the king and queen and that all his actions will be reported to the king and queen as well. The nation is a diseased with men like Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern visited Hamlet not because they were genuinely concerned with Hamlet’s well-being or welfare, but to work for Claudius as his spy. They put the King’s interests before Hamlet and were willing to betray their friendship to serve the King.
In Act II scene ii, Claudius and Gertrude have ordered Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, Hamlet’s childhood friends, to check up on Hamlet and report back to them. Before the two meet Hamlet, they confirm their loyalty to the king and queen and promise to report back to them without Hamlet knowing. Hamlet welcomes Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, but knows that they did not come in the pure interests of companionship, but at the orders of the king and queen. Hamlet is suspicious of their motives from the start and know that their loyalty lies with the king and queen and that all his actions will be reported to the king and queen as well. The nation is a diseased with men like Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern visited Hamlet not because they were genuinely concerned with Hamlet’s well-being or welfare, but to work for Claudius as his spy. They put the King’s interests before Hamlet and were willing to betray their friendship to serve the King.