In Hamlet, Elsinore is a society which people are seen acting in a deceitful manner in order to gain personal measures and prestige. These people mask their true in intentions to acquire selfish desires. In doing so they develop a theme of the discrepancy between the way things appear and their true realities. Hamlet, on the other hand, is an honest, moral individual trapped in this deceitful society. Hamlet is faced with the dilemma to …showed first 75 words of 875 total…

…showed last 75 words of 875 total…believed he lived in a place where appearance was reality but finally realized he was mistaken. Had Hamlet not changed from his original appearance to his final reality, by using deceit, he would have never been able to kill Claudius. However, if he had stayed true to himself he still would have died without purging the corrupt from Elsinore nor avenging his father's death, thus leaving his father's kingdom sullied, with no hope for purification.