Hamlet's Deception Deception is often used in politics and everyday life to gain power and success. The theme of deception is often repeated in Shakespeare's Hamlet. Hamlet's hesitation in killing Claudius and Hamlet's eventual death are a direct result of deception at court. Hamlet tries to fool everyone into thinking he is mad. He believes that with this "antiquated disposition" he can kill Claudius without consequences and avenge his father's death. When Cladius and Polonius learn of Hamlet's madness, they decide to find out the reason. They spy on Hamlet to understand why he behaves this way. Through this Cladius learns that Hamlet is dangerous and a threat to him. Hamlet's deception also leads to the death of Ophelia and her father Polonius. As well as pushing Laertes to seek revenge on Hamlet for causing the death of his family. After several attempts to kill Hamlet fail, Claudius allies himself with Laertes and tries to kill Hamlet once and for all. Each of these plans directly or indirectly causes Hamlet's death. After Hamlet speaks with his father's ghost, he discovers that Claudius killed him to gain the throne of Denmark. Hamlet must take revenge by killing Claudius. To do this, he must act crazily to divert suspicion from himself. Hamlet says to Hortaio “How strange or strange I behave in someone, for perhaps hereafter I will think fit to put him in a strange disposition,” (I;v;170-172), this indicates that from now on Hamlet will behave madly. . He believes that this way he can kill the king and get away with it. Polonius realizes Hamlet's madness and wants to find out the reason. He says: "Fool, let us then, and now remain, discover the cause of this defect, for this defective effect comes from the cause." (II;ii;100-103). Claudius and Polonius spy on Hamlet and Ophelia as they talk. After listening to their conversation Claudius says "And I doubt whether the trapdoor and the opening constitute any danger; to avoid it, I hastily decided to write it thus: he will quickly go to England" (III; i; 163-166). This means that Claudius begins to believe that Hamlet is dangerous and wants to send him to England. From this point Claudius is very wary of Hamlet, he suspects that Hamlet is plotting against him, he says: "The madness of the great must not go unnoticed"..