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After the performance of the Mousetrap (or The Murder of Gonzago), Claudius retires and attempts to pray for forgiveness for his crime. But how, he asks himself, can he be forgiven since he is "still possessed of those effects for which [he] did the murder: [his] Crown, [his] own ambition, and [his] Queen." These are the things which he got as a result of the murder of his brother.

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