new birth
...their king died because of a bite from a poisonous snake. The dead King’s ghost then appears to reveal to Hamlet, his son how Claudius had killed him. Now, Hamlet, hear. ‘Tis given out that, sleeping in my orchard A serpent stung me. So the whole ear of Denmark Is by a forged process of my death Rankly abused. But know, thou noble youth, The serpent that did sting thy father’s life Now wears his crown.. (I.v. 34-40) When Hamlet hears this, he is enraged with Claudius and accepts his father’s request to seek revenge. Further proof that Claudius is in fact guilty of murdering his brother is his nervous reaction to a play staged by Hamlet showing a man murdering his bro...