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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from A Book of Remarkable Criminals by H. B. Irving: Queen Gertrude was her lover's accomplice in her husband's
murder. If that had been so, she would no doubt have been of
considerable assistance to Claudius in the preparation of the
crime. But in the absence of more definite proof we must assume
Claudius' murder of his brother to have been a solitary
achievement, skilfully carried out by one whose genial good-
fellowship and convivial habits gave the lie to any suggestion of
criminality. Whatever may have been his inward feelings of
remorse or self-reproach, Claudius masked them successfully from
the eyes of all. Hamlet's instinctive dislike of his uncle was
not shared by the members of the Danish court. The "witchcraft
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