How smart a lash that speech doth give my conscience! <Tab/>The harlot's cheek, beautied with plastering art, <Tab/>Is not more ugly to the thing that helps it <Tab/>Than is my deed to my most painted word: <Tab/>O heavy burden! (III.i.49-53) <Tab/> <Tab/>This soliloquy by …
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…he craved. Clearly, his plan did not work. Almost everyone died as a result of the murder, including Claudius. At the end of the play, Claudius is killed as a result of his own cowardly plot. He devises so many different ways to attempt to kill Hamlet that others die as a result. He ends up poisoning not only Hamlet, but also Gertrude. But in the end, it is Claudius' own poison that kills him.