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This Image illustrates King Claudius trying to make amends, or rather praying for his sins to be forgiven. He went into a chamber alone asking himself if he could even pray, if such an act was possible after what he had done to his brother. The worse part of it all, it the fact that he was only shown once remorsing over what he haas done after he was discovered by Hamlet’s genius idea, that was induced within a play. He was caught and ran out like a guilty man, then later is trying to pray, and hope to be forgiven. Hamlet stumbled upon him while he was praying, and he thought about killing him, but then later deduced that if he did that after he had just confess, then he would go to heaven, so he decided to condemn him to the safe fate, he

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