Blog Post #12 Character choice: King Claudius

     I chose to look deeper into the behavior of King Claudius for a few reasons. The first and most obvious, my name is Claudia, his is Claudius, they're essentially the same. But also, there's a lot of complexity to his character. His actions are slightly fishy in general; marrying his deceased brother's wife/his "sister," becoming king when logically, the throne should've gone to Hamlet. He also creates a lot of conflict for Hamlet internally, because of Hamlet's rage toward him, which the king further fuels by challenging Hamlet's manhood and morality. He's social media relevant because if this were twitter, he'd have one of those little blue badges by his name--people would follow him just because of his title, making him influential and important in an online setting.