“Oh, my offense is vulgar, it stinks to heaven...” he is proclaiming that his actions, though negative, are powerful and their tremors shake up to the heavens. "My strongest guilt defeats my strongest intent..." the King comes out and says he is guilty. His strong sense of guilt overrode his original intentions, which were to be with Hamlet's mother, Gertrude. He begins to realize throughout the story that he triggered all the events with his actions. His lust, greed and corruption have made Denmark rotten. When his actions catch up with him, murder is rampant, more hearts are broken, and he inadvertently hurts his beloved Gertrude putting his son, Hamlet, in such a bad position that he begins to take his anger out on everyone around him. . The most important part of the quote above is this: “Then I will look
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