"Considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?"

Shakespeare is trying to make a point when the people who are being spied on are often “innocent.” Usually the person who is interested in spying, Claudius, is the character who needed to be spied on in the significant act of killing King Hamlet. Shakespeare is using irony here to make point! First is the question: if one cannot trust others can they be trusted themselves? Second, it is important for us to LOOK inward on our actions before LOOKING and judging the actions of others.