Hamlet Worst Character

Throughout the play Hamlet, a bunch of different characters are seen, all with very different goals and different lives. With those goals comes a different stand on moral issues. While it is very hard to say who the "best" and "worst" characters are in this play, one can make his own personal interpretations of the characters and their actions. Starting off easy, the undeniable most morally bad character in the play is none other than King Claudius. The king was never even perceived as a good person at all during the play. He is the only character that you could not make an argument for in terms of being good. Not only does he kill his brother to be king and marry his step-sister, but he also makes an attempt to kill the main character of the
The second was when he poisoned his wine (killing him), and the third was in the final moments of the play when he had him dule with Laertes when Laertes had a poisoned sword. After Claudius, it is much harder to rank the characters, but Gertrude is a very appropriate option for a second-worst character in the play. While she is not directly involved with the murder of her previous husband, she did marry Claudius very quickly after the fact. This raises the question, was she ever loyal to him in the first place? Of course, there is no direct evidence to back up that claim. There is also no direct evidence against it, either. This brings us to our next character in this moral ranking, Polonius. While not as bad as Claudius, he was definitely not a particularly good person. Especially compared to some of the other characters on this list. First off, you can tell from the very beginning that he is particularly manipulative, most of all to his two children, Ophelia and Laertes. He does this for his own selfish political gain. Also, his constant medaling and eavesdropping changed the course of the story more than once. Fourth on this list is the son of Polonius,