1. Claudius & hamlet
... welfare. In his book, The Wheel of Fire, he continues this line of thought to conclude that Claudius is a good and gentle king, enmeshed by the chain of causality linking him with his crime. And this chain he might, perhaps, have broken except for Hamlet (Jump, 125). Although Knight's views of Hamlet and Claudius are almost the extreme opposite of my interpretation ... a state of chaos. The most glaring weakness of Wilson Knight's interpretation of Hamlet is his conclusion that Claudius is a good and gentle king, enmeshed by the chain of causality linking him with his crime (Jump, 125)....
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