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Villager: Lucianus

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ID: #148601

Name: Lucianus

Gender: Bigender

Location: Oceandome

Born 9 years, 4 months ago

Career: Animal Husbandry

Owner: rriver


Species: Dragon

Color: Diver

Costume: Diver

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This is one Lucianus, nephew to the King. (3.2, line 229)

yes this is just a character from the play within Hamlet so not exactly a character in Hamlet but I'm avoiding Claudius, Polonius, and Gertrude

IT'S ALSO REALLY INTERESTING because Hamlet chooses the play to try to catch Claudius looking guilty, since the circumstances of the Player King and King Hamlet being poisoned are the same. However, instead of being the king's brother killing him to take the crown, it's his nephew, and it's only after hearing this that Claudius orders the play to end.

Basically, this can be interpreted as follows: using a nephew instead of a brother was originally chosen by Hamlet to avoid Claudius being suspicious that Hamlet knows Claudius poisoned his father. But from Claudius's perspective, he sees a king being murdered by his nephew, in a play put on by his nephew, and he's currently King of Denmark.

Brevity is the soul of wit, so I shall be brief: maybe he wasn't scared about being caught(/framed) for King Hamlet's murder - maybe he was terrified of being murdered by Hamlet.

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