Hamlet's soliloquy in act 3, scene 3 reveals many facts about Hamlet's character and clears up aspects of his character that were unclear before. One of the most revealed facts about Hamlet in this speech is his gravitation toward procrastination and indecision. The way Hamlet puts off killing Claudius is no different than a student putting homework off until the next day. Like a student, Hamlet finds reasons to put off his actions by rationalizing the situation.
             In the first few lines of Hamlet's soliloquy, he pauses and decides to think about his actions. Before the speech he is intent upon killing Claudius. A modern example of this mindset would be a student sitting down to start his math homework. Like Hamlet, the student has planned to sit down and set aside time to do the job at hand. Once Hamlet realizes that killing Claudius would send him to heaven, he pauses and says, "That would be scanned," or that the situation should be thought out. This is much like the student hearing a popular TV show from the next room and stopping to think if his time is better spent on the task at hand or being entertained by the television. Hamlet says, "A villain kills my father, and for that I, his sole son, do this same villain send to Heaven." Since Claudius is praying, he would be sent to heaven upon his death while Hamlet's father was killed without giving his last confession and thus denied the path to heaven. After rationalizing his actions, Hamlet decides that to kill Claudius now would be "hire and salary," rather than revenge. In the next few lines, Hamlet recounts the story of his father's death. He says that, "[Claudius] took my father grossly, full of bread, with all his crimes full blown, as flush as may." The phrase, full of bread simply means that Old Hamlet died while he was soaking in worldly pleasures. He was contenting hi
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