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King Claudius says this about the title character of "Hamlet." He says this to Laertes, to explain why he has not physically punished Hamlet yet, for the killing of Laertes' father Polonius. Thus, the two must conspire to punish Hamlet via a duel with a poisoned sword, says Claudius, because he cannot offend the queen. This quote shows the king's lying nature, as the king cares less for Polonius than eliminating the son Hamlet, who knows how he came to the throne, and his fears of raising suspicions in the court about his complicity in old Hamlet's death.

2) "You-here? You have the gall to show your face before the palace gates? You, plotting to kill me, kill the king-I see it all, the marauding thief himself scheming to steal my crown and power!"

As his fate closes around him, the king of Thebes "Oedipus" raves in horror at the sight of the blind prophet Tiresias at the gate, whom he blames, temporarily and foolishly for his evil fate, attributing guilt to the fortuneteller by association with fate. 3) "Creon is not your downfall, you are your own!"

Tiresias says this to the title character of "Oedipus," stressing that hubris rather than men, and the god's will and the man's allocated fate by the gods, rather than political wrangling are what does the Greek king of Thebes in.

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., speak no more; thou turn'st mine eyes into my very soul; and there I see such black and grained spots as will not leave their tinct."

Gertrude says this to Hamlet, after her son has castigated her in her 'closet' or the chamber before her bedroom, about the probable guilt of Claudius and the complicity of Claudius in her first husband's death. However, she married the current king anyway, despite her evident doubts, because of her own desire.

5) "The sight of my children, born as they were born, how could I long to look into their eyes? No, not with these eyes of mine, never."

Oedipus blinds himself so he will not have to look into the eyes of the children. He says this to the Chorus to explain why he….....

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