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…Critics are saying that this is one of the very few instances in the whole play, where Hamlet lets his rage get the best of him. Hamlet enters very angrily, and after talking to his mother for a little bit, he hears an echo from behind the arras. Hamlet thinks it is Claudius, so he runs his sword through the tapestry. To his surprise, it was Polonius, and not Claudius, that he has just killed.