Mother, were destroyed. He became so thirsty for revenge that he accidentally killed his old friend Polonious and eventually his uncle. In the end Hamlet was affected the greatest when he was cut by the poison sword of Laertes, whom had been convinced by Claudius to kill Hamlet. Another character that was greatly affected by Claudiuss selfishness was Ophelia. Before King Hamlets Death Ophelia and Hamlet were in love, but after his death Hamlet became so obsessed with revenge that Ophelia meant hardly nothing to him. Although he still loved her deep inside, he treated her horribly partly as a result of his encroaching madness, and partly as a ploy to throw off Claudius and his spies. Ophelia was so shocked and confused over Hamlets complete betrayal that she could hardly go on living, and in the end she became so overwhelmed that she committed suicide. Lady Macbeth also affected many characters with her deceitfulness. The character most greatly affected was her husband, Macbeth. Until he was convinced by his wife, Macbeth had decided that he was going to stay loyal to the King, and put all notions of murder out of his head. In Act I, scene seven Macbeth declares, We will proceed no further in this business, meaning he has decided to end all thoughts of murdering the king. Lady Macbeth will not give up though, and instead begins to try to further lure Macbeth into participating in her corrupt plans. Eventually she is successful in doing this, and Macbeth murders Duncan. Lady Macbeth lit a spark of evil in Macbeth that turned into his destruction. Macbeth became power hungry and murdered many others in order to have it. Lady Macbeth turned her loyal, honorable husband into a corrupt fool. In the end it all lead to the total destruction of a once well respected, virtuous hero....
