Claudius & Hamlet: The Power Struggle

In William Shakspear's Hamlet, their is a definitive similarity between Claudius and Hamlet in their language demonstrating the power sruggle between the two. The attribution of traits such as: jealousy, insecurity, and hatred are presented in the core of both Claudius and Hamlet's language to indicate the competive desire for power. This disposition of revenge for Hamlet and sustainment of the thrown for Claudius shows the reasoning for each character to long for power, that allows Shakspear to also create a situational factor for the audiance to attribute "good" and "bad" to the characters in the play. Ovioussly the Consensus of Hamlet having desire to remove Claudius from his position seems justified since his father was murdered by Claudius and he took the throne and the Kings wife. Both however, show the same importance and worry in power through the context of their language. Language seems to be the primary factor in William Shakspear's Hamlet, in demonstrating the similarity of both Claudius and Hamlet's desire for power over one another through the reasoning of dispositional and situational factors.