How far do you agree with the statement ''moral corruption taints all in the world of Hamlet''? Remember to use contextual information and refer to the text in your answer.

Throughout Shakespeare's revenge tragedy 'Hamlet', Hamlet's world is portrayed to be shaped by its corruption and rotten disposition. Each member of the state is shown to be influenced by each other's actions, and so a functionalist perspective on the play would particularly find Claudius' kingship has disrupted the organic makeup of Elsinore, creating an unnatural, tentative body, in which moral corruption can thrive in each person. Dishonesty and lust for power evoke a world not only ''sick at heart'', but destroyed, as each character can often be found to act in isolation of their usual conscience and morals. The Jacobean era was shaped by political intrigue thus meaning 'Hamlet' can be perceived as a commentary on the deception found within Queen Elizabeth's royal courts- most particularly related to the subject of the Scottish King James VI's succession- an issue that threatened England's core Tudor stronghold. This moral corruption is thus emphasised within the arriviste Claudius, the sycophantic Polonius, and the depletion of Hamlet's conscience.
As Hamlet's identity becomes further and further isolated from the old Elsinore his Father had governed, his character's morals change from those of a renaissance thinker interested in introspection, to an individual led by a need to take vengeance. He is shown, as the play progresses, to become a product of the murderous and ''rotten'' state of Denmark, reduced to an immoral revenger. Hamlet is shown to have known the importance of separating himself from the moral wrongdoings of his Mother and Uncle when stating his need to ''break'' his ''heart'' and ''hold'' his tongue. He knows not to involve himself in their corruption, with the word ''break'' showing his need for physical distance and dissolved ties from the new royal body- perhaps hoping he could return to Wittenburg and away from their malfeasance. The physicality of his statement draws attention in the theatre to Hamlet's body, his chest for ''heart'', and his mouth for ''tongue''. In the RSC production of Hamlet of 2013, the director Farr focuses the camera particularly on the actor's face as the line concludes, forcing the audience to correlate Hamlet's feelings with his present body, a whole natural unit, not yet ''rotten'' like the decaying Denmark. However, by the end of the play Hamlet describes less of his ''tongue'' and ''heart'' as his character is shown to become one with the corrupt world around him, with Shakespeare presenting Hamlet to refer less to his physical body due to his preoccupation with his body and soul in the afterlife. Whilst Jacobean audiences may feel Hamlet's early contemplation of suicide in his fourth soliloquy showed a moral corruption within Hamlet before he had even committed murder, due to their religious condemnation of the act, modern functionalist readings may interpret that at this point in the play the Prince is suffering the increasing burden of the moral task demanded of him. Thus, Hamlet can be shown to be affected by Elsinore's moral corruption, but largely as a result of the ''heart'' of Denmark being sick, affecting his ability to progress as a renaissance thinker.