Who Was The Fault In King Claudius

Everyone has heard the saying that there are always two sides to each story. Finding fault is usually about perspective. People usually side with the person that is telling them the story at that time. The person that is telling the story usually builds it up to look like the good guy because they leave out all of their faults or cover them up and point out the other person faults. The same thing can be said for characters inside a story. We tend to place tags of which character is the hero and which one is the villain by which one is the main character in the story. The main character in the story is usually the person that is narrating the event the way they interrupted them. We just see the story from one side so we miss out on what may
Claudius shows many characteristics of a villain but he also shows some characteristics that do not fit the usually criteria of a villain. If the story was told through Claudius perspective we might have seen him differently. Claudius has done a lot of bad things but, he is not all bad. Yes he killed his brother to become king and he was wrong for it but he was not a bad or harsh king. He was actually a pretty good king that cared for his people and his land. Most villains when they get in power they have some type of evil plan up their sleeves Claudius did not. He was a good leader and did not abuse his powers against his people like a lot of villains do. He does not fit into either category of a hero or a villain. He is in between the two because he shows some of both characteristics. Claudius acts and sin are too bad to be a hero and his feelings are too real to be a villain this is what makes Claudius so complex. Claudius cannot be accused by people of being truly evil. He walks a tight thin line that cannot fully be blurred either way. Claudius is a complex villain because he feels guilt, he loves Gertrude, and because the hero did some of the things that Claudius