Read the excerpt from Act IV of Hamlet.Claudius: Where are my Switzers? Let them guard the door. What is the matter?Gentleman: Save yourself, my lord; The ocean, overpeering of his list, Eats not the flats with more impetuous haste Than young Laertes, in a riotous head, O'erbears your officers. The rabble call him lord; And, as the world were now but to begin, Antiquity forgot, custom not known, The ratifiers and props of every word, They cry, 'Choose we; Laertes shall be king!' Caps, hands, and
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Laertes’s arrival renders Claudius remorseful and contrite.
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Laertes’s popular support increases Claudius’s insecurities.
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Laertes’s chaotic entrance makes Claudius become violent.
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Laertes’s demands prompt Claudius to change his politics.