During the play Hamlet, Shakespeare cleverly and carefully constructs imagery that writhes in the reader’s mind and keeps them second guessing everything and taking nothing at face value. Nearly every character goes through at least one significant change throughout the story. At times, each character may seem pure and good and at other times, the same character is a corruptible, vengeful human being. Shakespeare repeatedly uses imagery of a poison creeping through Elsinore, infecting …showed first 75 words of 596 total…

…showed last 75 words of 596 total…to have good and evil within them. The true motives of everyone seem disguised in this play, and everyone seems out for themselves. In this tragedy, almost every character goes through transformations. Sometimes theses changes are a tangible corruption or merely a perceived change in the attitude through the putting on of pretenses. Hamlet clearly shows how all human beings have the capacity for good and evil. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography** The Mind of Gregory T. Eastman ;)