The Three Men of Action
            
             In the play of Hamlet by William Shakespeare, there are three men of action all with the same dilemma. Fortinbras and Laertes are similar characters to Hamlet. All three of them want to avenge their father's death; however, they each take different courses on their way to doing so. This is the main variation between the characters how they handle their misfortune and how they get revenge on their father's murderer.
             The main character Hamlet, after learning that his father's death was a murder and promising to take revenge, waits and makes sure that what he knows is the absolute truth before he even attempts to take revenge on Claudius. Hamlet is very private with his grief. His sadness is long and after two months after his father's death, he still wears "suits of solemn black." Even though his mother remarried to his uncle so quickly, he does not suspect anything of his father's murder until the ghost tells him. Hamlet thinks over what he is to do, and how he is to avenge the murder of his father. But that does not mean that he cannot act on impulse. When he and Laertes fight over Ophelia's grave, it shows how much Hamlet can act impulsively. He forms this elaborate scheme in which Hamlet has actors act out the murder of a king by pouring poison in his ear. The purpose of this is to see Claudius's reaction to the play and from there he would confirm or deny his father's ghost's charge of murder. After seeing Claudius's awkward response to the
            
             play and him storming out, Hamlet has enough confirmation that his uncle is truly the killer and Hamlet promises he will not procrastinate any longer. But still, as Hamlet sees Claudius praying, he has an easy opportunity to kill him, however, he reasons that if Claudius were to die while praying, he would surly go to heaven.
             Now might I do it pat, now he is praying;/And now I'll do't;-and so he ...