What does Claudius aside indicate how?
While this self-sacrificing act of Gertrude reveals her maternal love, the aside of Claudius reveals his selfishness and lack of true feeling for the wife he has taken from his dead brother: King.
What important information does Claudius reveal?
What important information does Claudius reveal? Claudius tells Gertrude that the people of Denmark are grumbling and in turmoil over the death of Polonius. Further, Polonius was buried quickly without any of the ceremony that would have been fitting for a person of his rank.
What does Claudius reveal in his aside and how does it connect to what the ghost told Hamlet in Act I?
How does Claudius’s aside relate to the play’s theme? Claudius reveals that he is guilty of murdering his brother and has been pretending to be a better person. This is connected to what the ghost says to Hamlet because the ghost claims that Claudius killed him, and how Claudius reveals feelings of guilt.
What does Claudius admit to himself and to the audience about his crime?
what does claudius admit to himself and the readers about his crime? he admits that he feels guilty and burdened by the way his own actions and words have masked his crime.
Does Claudius really feel guilty?
Claudius kills his brother mainly because of jealousy, the crown, the queen and a hatred of his brother. Therefore Claudius is guilty of the murder of his brother. Claudius feels guilty about killing his brother. We can see Claudius;s remorse when he is talking to God and gives his monologue about his his murder.
Is Claudius remorse genuine?
In Act III, scene iii, Hamlet finally seems ready to put his desire for revenge into action. He is satisfied that the play has proven his uncle’s guilt. When Claudius prays, the audience is given real certainty that Claudius murdered his brother: a full, spontaneous confession, even though nobody else hears it.
What is revealed by Claudius soliloquy beginning with O my offense is rank it smells to heaven?
In this soliloquy, Claudius confesses the deed and recoils at its smell. It is “rank” (that is, “rancid”), so rank that the vile odor wafts all the way to heaven. So while Claudius is metaphorical about the “smell” of his deed, he is grimly literal about heaven’s reaction.