His guilty feelings are evident as he continues: " If this cursed hand were thicker than itself with brothers blood, Is there not enough rain in the sweet heavens to wash it white as snow?" ... Many natural representations are used - "rain", "snow". ... It seems that Claudius is brutally aware of his wrongdoing and wants desperately for it to be washed "white as snow". ...

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