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through death, deceit, revenge, melancholy and insanity .In all of Shakespeare’s plays
there is a character that you cant help but feel sorry for, this is the tragic hero .The tragic
hero always comes equipped with many problems he cant seem to blow off. In this case
the king, Hamlets father is assassinated by his own brother and Hamlet wants revenge.
That is the only decision he makes on his own in the play so he tragic flaw with the tragic
hero Hamlet ,is that he procrastinates to much and misses the chance to kill Claudius
At the beginning of the play Hamlet sees the ghost of his father who had just
recently passed away. The ghost tells Hamlet about his death in every detail stating that
he was actually murdered by his own brother, Hamlets unc
. . .
Hamlet carries his indecisiveness he whole play. Laretes and the king plot to kill hamlet by poisoning him with a
poised tip of a sword in a dual or the poisoned wine from the king. At first Hamlet doesn’t now what to believe but he
keeps seeing the ghost telling him the same thing so he chooses to avenge his fathers
death by killing his uncle dad. Somehow hamlet finds out what’s up on the boat, switches the
letters to England and gets the messengers killed instead. The one decision that he makes
Wasn’t ’t really even his, it was a request from his fathers ghost. Because of Hamlets inability to make
up his mind the king lives and keeps on sleeping with his brothers widowed wife so all of
these things like the ghost and insect and deceit are making hamlet go a little nuts, which
puts a state of melancholy over everyone close to him including himself. Threw a lot of deaths, lying and insanity hamlet gets
his revenge but his life is also taken along with the queens and the whole royal family has
eventually killed off one another accidentally or by murder. le who is now Hamlets new
father from marrying Hamlets mother. At this point
Hamlets uncle is getting really fed up with him and when he stabbed polonium it forced
the king to send him to England to be executed, when Ophelia learns of this she goes
crazy her self and dies. So if only
Hamlet could’ve made up his mind and killed the king in the church or killed himself a
list of people would’ve been alive and living happily, but he didn’t and their everybody is
dead. It takes a long time for
Hamlet to finally avenge his father but he does eventually and shows his loyalty to his
father and the thrown he once sat. When he returns to England he
finds Ophelia dead and Laretes wants to really kill him for killing his dad and making his
sister nuts and dead. When Hamlet gets the perfect opportunity soon after he
starts thinking if he should really do it at that time or if he should do it somewhere else,
he starts a debate within himself questioning weather or not he would go to hell and his
uncle would go to heaven because they were in a church so at that point he is
procrastinating and doesn’t stab the king to death. So hamlets mom
drinks to Hamlet with the poisoned wine and laretes stabbed Hamlet then Hamlet stabs
Laretes with the same sword and then kills the king after laretes rats him out.
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