Indecision, Hesitation and Delay in Shakespeares Hamlet Essay

Hesitation in Hamlet William Shakespeares Hamlet is tragic because all of the enmity being the fruit of virtuoso mans inability to make decisions. I believe the play is display the steps of hesitation a person goes through who cannot choose, and the resultant angst. This one man is Prince Hamlet. Throughout the play he comes into situations where he just cant hold up himself into action. In Act I, Scene 5 Hamlet has an encounter with a spectre who explains that it is Hamlets deceased father. After a little while of talk of the tget the ghost tells Hamlet that he did not die of natural causes, save was in fact murdered. When the ghost says this Hamlet replies with Haste me to knowt, that I, with wings as swift As meditation or the thoughts of love May traverse to my revenge. (Lines 29-31) Hamlet is swearing to avenge his fathers death as fast as possible. The ghost then tells Hamlet that the villain who committed the murder was the Kings own brother Claudius. Thi s surprises Hamlet, but he knows he made a swearing and he must stick to it, he then says So, uncle, there you are. without delay to my word It is, Adieu, adieu, remember me. I have swornt. (I.V. Lines 110-111) After the scene with the ghost the reader would most likely believe that an enraged Hamlet bygone straight to Claudius room to kill him. This is the first incident when Hamlet is spy being incapable of making decisions. In Act II, Scene 2, dickens scenes after Hamlet was about to kill the king, he still hasnt through it, but during this scene Hamlet comes in contact with a assort of traveling actors and asks them to play for the king. Hamlet tells us in this next inverted comma of his tragic flaw of indecision and of his plan ... ...gh out the play bowelless at his soul. So in the end it was Hamlets inability to act that kills him and galore(postnominal) others. Works Cited and Consulted Bloom, Harold. Modern Critical Interpretations Of Hamlet. raw(a) York , NY Chelsea House Publishers, 1986. Boklund, Gunnar. Hamlet. Essays on Shakespeare. Ed. Gerald Chapman. Princeton, NJ Princeton University Press, 1965. Epstein, Norrie. One of Destinys Casualties. Readings on Hamlet. Ed. Don Nardo. San Diego Greenhaven Press, 1999. Rpt. of The Friendly Shakespeare A Thoroughly painless to the Best of the Bard. New York Viking Penguin, 1993. p. 332-34. Jorgensen, Paul A. Hamlet. William Shakespeare the Tragedies. Boston Twayne Publ., 1985. N. pag. http//www.freehomepages.com/hamlet/other/jorg-hamlet.html Shakespeare, William. Hamlet. Ed. T. J. B. Spencer. New York Penguin, 1996.