Hamlet's delay for revenge
"Revenge should know no bounds" - ClaudiusIn William Shakespeare's 'Hamlet', Hamlet vows to avenge his father's death at the hands of Claudius, however, he procarastinates throughout the play and doesn't seek revenge until the end, when Hamlet finally acts by his instincts, and kills his father's murderer. Hamlet is stopped in seeking revenge by a number of factors throughout the play. He needs to know if the ghost is telling the truth before he seeks revenge. He fears purgatory - as told about the horrors of it by the ghost. He needs to get himself together before seeking revenge, and he procrastinates through discovering that revenge is easier said than done. "Revenge his foul and most unnatural murder"When his father's ghost came to him and told him to avenge his murder, Hamlet was eager to take immediate action. However before seeking revenge he needs to know if the ghost is telling the truth about his murder. "May sweep to my revenge." Hamlet feels that if the ghost isn't telling the truth and he acts, he too will become a murderer. "Thus conscience doth make cowards of us all." In order to determine if Claudius is truly guilty, Hamlet produces a play in which the plot is paralle
Throughout the play, Hamlet is shown to be unstable. He believes his mother betrayed his father by marrying Claudius so soon after his father's death. He thinks about seeking revenge but takes a long time in seeking it. However, finding out the ghost was telling the truth didn't make Hamlet seek immediate revenge. Claudius' murder, he will have to go through the terrors of purgatory. As seen, in Hamlet, Hamlet promised to avenge his father's death, the mission of revenge is something he takes no pleasure in. "Another reason Hamlet delays in seeking revenge is because he is too self absorbed. He analyses and examines every part of his situation until he has exhausted every angle and causes him to be indecisive. He is grief stricken to realize that his mother has committed adultery and now sleeping in 'incestuous sheets'. In this way he procrastinates through words to realize that revenge is easier said than done. He wants Claudius to have to go through purgatory, so when he gets the perfect opportunity to kill Claudius, he can't. He is unbalanced and cannot bring himself to act; he needs to get himself together first, before seeking revenge.
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