him (Knight 123). Beggar that I am, I am even poorer in thanks;/ but I thank you; and sure, dear friends, my thanks/ are too dear a halfpenny/ Why, anything, but to the purpose. You were / sent for, and there is a kind of confession in your looks, which your modesties have not craft enough/ to color. (Act )Claudius could also have some of Hamlet's friends try to kill him thus having the household turn against him. This represents Hamlet's risk of feeling estrangement from having his former friends turn against him similarly as Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. Also, According to Mark Scott, Hamlet's friends and colleagues do not know why Claudius deserves execution; they have no knowledge of his crime, and Hamlet either lacks the proof or the nerve to inform them of the crime. Thus, in trying to kill Claudius, Hamlet faces an estranging sense of unease from engaging in an endeavor of which his friends and colleagues feel is gravely immoral and unacceptable (Knight 44). One of the most important forms of estrangement that Hamlet risks feeling in attempting to kill Claudius is estrangement from his mother. In order to kill Claudius, Hamlet must, of course, realize that Claudius killed his father. In doing so, however, he must also realize the self-unsettling fact that his mother fell in love with such a vile man, a man who not only is immoral but also has successfully emasculated Hamlet by killing his father. In killing Claudius he also risks estrangement from her, since she might forever view Hamlet as the man who killed her lover and a just king (Cahn 77). After all, she might never believe in Claudius' guilt, either from Hamlet not being able to convince her of his guilt, or because a sense of psychological denial might prevent her from realizing this fact about Claudius. And even if she does realize it, she will feel hurt. Here is your husband, like a mildewed ear/ Blasting his wholesome brother. Have you...
