Hamlet's Indecisiveness

Many readers regard William Shakespeare’s Hamlet as his greatest work, if not the world’s greatest play written in the English language. However, some famous critics such as T.S. Eliot see Hamlet in a different light — they see Hamlet as nothing more than an “artistic failure” full of inconsistencies. For example, why exactly is Hamlet not crowned king when he is already of age? Is it because he is away at Wittenberg? Despite this fault, these myriads of analyses only highlight the fact that…

means necessary to become king, including killing his dear friend King Duncan. However, once the time comes, Macbeth seems to have a hard time actually fulfilling the deed. It takes some powerful and forceful words from his wife to rid him of his indecisiveness. His wife’s push towards killing Duncan not only starts a string of murders for innocent people, but transitions Macbeth into a killer. It almost seems as if his wife wants the power more than Macbeth does. However, after he kills Duncan,…

Those who have seen the ghost seemed worried about Prince Hamlet’s reaction to the information that he would receive. I think that if they would have decided to be dishonest with Hamlet is would have come back to haunt them. After Hamlet finds out about his father’s ghost he becomes eager to seek him out. Once the…

and suicidal tendencies play only a small part in Hamlet’s overall character as a tragic hero. As with all tragic heroes, Hamlet has a fatal flaw that brings him to his downfall. This flaw being his hesitation to act. Hamlet delays his quest for revenge multiple times throughout the play, despite having…

The quieter one becomes, the more one can hear. In both The Story of Edgar Sawtelle and Hamlet, the lead characters lack voices. Edgar is physically unable to speak, and Hamlet’s constant flirtations with words remain unheeded by the people around him. Furthermore, both characters “walk around in love with the idea of a thing instead of the reality of it” (257). Without the power of words, however, Edgar becomes a more potent observer. Cut off from verbal communication, he expresses himself by…

probably never dealt with a tragic loss such as this, immediately succumbs to grief and is consumed by it. Shortly after the burial of his father, he comes face to face with his ghost and this will soon lead to the first event that showed Hamlet’s indecisiveness. A quote from the play, spoken by Hamlet says, "Out of my weakness and my melancholy, As he is very potent with such spirits, Abuses me to damn me. I'll have grounds More relative than this. The play's the thing Wherein I'll catch the…

Hamlet’s indecisiveness and Gonzalo’s sarcasm added to the humanistic sense of the two plays. These characters embodied the immediate response that humans may do when feel that they are taken to their disadvantage. Shakespeare and Guerrero both emphasized the struggle…

Hamlet is a revenge tragedy play written by Williams Shakespeare. The play is all about revenge; many characters are seeking revenge of other characters with different reason and motives. In every revenge tragedy, there should be a ghost that asks for revenge. The three major themes that most of the characters are involved in are revenge, madness and spying. The three themes are related to each other, while revenge was the reason behind madness and madness was the reason behind spying. To make…

people are created in which they have the ability to make their own decisions. This is significant, as had he met Fortinbras, Hamlet’s mood would have changed into a more hopeful tone, bringing contrast into the story. Instead, the mood of darkness is kept throughout (specifically in Hamlet’s dark clothing) and is never changed during the course of the movie. With Hamlet’s character also never changing, the principle of existentialism, in terms of Hamlet realizing he can make his own decisions,…

Hamlet by William Shakespeare is a play that has been imbedded into modern-day literature and pop-culture. Similar to Shakespeare’s other stories, Hamlet is a very formulaic story with several character archetypes and the common theme of hamartia continues to be used today in many current forms of fictional writing. Specifically, crucial characters within Hamlet such as Claudius, Hamlet and Polonius have varying character archetypes and as a result each character has a different set of goals and…