Hamlet

Hamlet is a highly reactive character but does not ever seem to have a certain plan by which to accomplish his goal of killing Claudius. This choice is the more noble one according to Hamlet, “To die, to sleep- To sleep, perchance to dream, ay there’s the rub; For in that sleep of death what dreams may come”, “Thus conscience makes a coward of us all”(III:i). “And now I’ll do it- and so he goes to heaven? And so I am revenged. Hamlets character fills the role of an ideal person with an ideal life, fallen by matter of circumstance and tragic fault. After this moment in the play Hamlet comes to the realization that, “Time is out of joint”, and concedes that it is his duty, “O cursed spite, that I was ever born to set it right”(I:iv) to seek vengeance. Even if he is not put to death and is pardoned from committing the crime, he is still locked up for life. The ghost informs Hamlet that he is to avenge his father, by killing his uncle. Hamlet displays the emotional complexity of the tragic fault here. We can see Hamlet’s plan to trick the others when he goes to Ophelias room in a state of madness, “Pale as his shirt, knees knocking each other, and with a look so piteous in purport as if he had been loosed out of hell To speak of horrors”(II:i). Hamlet becomes lost in his own psychological cloud, which highlights his inability to bring matters to a swift end. This request by the ghost puts Hamlet in an hardnosed situation. Hamlet first makes the choice then he decides which one is better. The first time we see Hamlet lose his level headedness is when he is confronted by the ghost, and threatens Horatio, “Unhand me, gentleman.