Indecision, Hesitation and Delay in Shakespeares Hamlet Essay

Hesitation in hamlet William Shakespeares Hamlet is tragic because all of the enmity being the product of one mans inability to make decisions. I believe the convey is showing 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 move himself into action. In Act I, Scene 5 Hamlet has an encounter with a ghost who explains that it is Hamlets deceased father. After a little while of talking the ghost tells Hamlet that he did not die of natural causes, but was in fact murdered. When the ghost says this Hamlet replies with hastiness me to knowt, that I, with wings as swift As meditation or the thoughts of love May sweep to my revenge. (Lines 29-31) Hamlet is swearing to avenge his fathers death as steady as possible. The ghost then tells Hamlet that the villain who committed the murder was the Kings own brformer(a) Claudius. This surprises Hamlet, but he knows he made a denunciation and he must stick to it, he then says So, uncle, there you are. Now to my word It is, Adieu, adieu, remember me. I have swornt. (I.V. Lines 110-111) After the scene with the ghost the ratifier would most likely believe that an enraged Hamlet gone straight to Claudius room to kill him. This is the first incident when Hamlet is observed being unequal to(p) of making decisions. In Act II, Scene 2, two scenes after Hamlet was about to kill the king, he still hasnt done it, but during this scene Hamlet comes in contact with a group of traveling actors and asks them to play for the king. Hamlet tells us in this next quote of his tragic flaw of indecision and of his proposal ... ...gh out the play tearing at his soul. So in the end it was Hamlets inability to act that kills him and many others. Works Cited and Consulted Bloom, Harold. Modern Critical Interpretations Of Hamlet. New York, NY Chelsea abode 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.