[Claudius:] How dangerous is it that this man goes loose! Yet must not we put the strong law on him: He’s lov’d of the distracted multitude, Who like not in their judgment, but their eyes —Hamlet, William Shakespeare How does King Claudius’s speech reflect Elizabethan political concerns? It shows that monarchs must worry about how the public perceives them. It reveals that monarchs have unlimited power. It suggests that the monarchy should be abolished. It implies that government should be based on ideas from classical Greece.\

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The main themes of the play are: fate and free will with the inevitability of oracular predictions is a theme that often occurs in greek tragedies the conflict between the individual and the state similar to that in sophocles’ “antigone” and   people’s willingness to ignore painful truths both oedipus and jocasta clutch at unlikely details in order to avoiding facing up to the inceasingly apparent truth and sight and blindness the irony that the blind seer tiresius can actually “see” more clearly than the supposedly clear-eyed oedipus, who is in reality blind to the truth about his origins and his inadvertent crimes.