The Corruption Of Claudius In Shakespeare's Hamlet

Hamlet feels betrayed by his mother and his former uncle because both of them have not respected his feelings and his uncle took his only parents away from him. During Hamlet’s soliloquy, he expresses “a beast that wants discourse of reason would have mourned longer!, married with my uncle.”(1.2. 154-156). In other words, hamlet is explaining that his mother has been corrupted by his uncle and not able to use reason correctly because she would have mourned longer if Claudius did not come into the picture. Claudius is critical of Hamlet for not getting over his father's death. Hamlet uses the metaphor “So excellent a king, that was to this hyperion to a satyr”(1.2. 143-144) to compare the Claudius’s external appearance and his internal appearance.