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Hamlets tragic flaw

William Shakespeare’s “Hamlet” is a story about the downfall of a royal family

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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