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perfect medium for emphasizing how misleading appearances can be, and throughout his most famous play, Hamlet, generations of audiences frequently ask themselves, "What is real and what is an illusion?"
For those unfamiliar with the plot, Hamlet is the story of a young Danish prince, who after being confronted with the ghost of his murdered father, vows revenge on
the newly crowned King Claudius of Denmark, who also happens to be his uncle as well as the new husband of his mother, Queen Gertrude. Throughout the play, Hamlets
sanity is in question, and audiences are left wondering if his madness is real and a result of the one-two punch of his fathers slaying and his mothers hasty remarriage
to her brother-in-law, further compounded by Ophelia, the lover who has been toying with his affections. However, there is also the possibility that it is a contrived madness solely
for appearances and represents Hamlets calculated plot of revenge to expose Claudius as his fathers killer. While most of the plays characters are shaped by Hamlets perceptions of them
- through his soliloquies and asides - King Claudius and Queen Gertrude are initially introduced before Hamlet takes the stage. They give the appearance of being the blushing bride
and groom, but their newlywed bliss is tempered by respectful grief for the beloved late monarch. Roy Walker observed in his analysis of Hamlet, "Despite our foreknowledge of some
great amiss we are dazzled by the brilliance of the scene the handsome appearance of the royal pair" (12). Claudius formally greets his new subjects with a muted display
of emotion: "Though yet of Hamlet our dear brothers death / The memory be green, and that it us befitted / To bear our hearts in grief, and our whole
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