y other moods that he can be in and that she and Claudius have not seen them all yet. Hamlet is a complex man with many moods but is intelligent enough to know when to reveal his true feelings and when to play a role. This is a foreshadowing that Hamlet's later moods, specifically madness, may in fact be a role.
             At the next meeting of Hamlet we see what motivates him into seeking vengeance towards Claudius. In Act I, Scene IV Horatio and Hamlet are waiting for the ghost of the late King Hamlet. Hamlet begins speaking of what happens when a man has an extravagant development of a character trait, such as melancholy or even insanity. He feels that even if these men are perfect in every other way that this flaw will be their path to evil or perhaps "...the stamp of one defect...often dout to his own scandal" (I.iv.35-40). This line has a double meaning. On one hand he is speaking of Claudius' need to be in power that leads him to kill Old Hamlet. However, it also can be interpreted as an allusion to Hamlet's own demon, which is his need for revenge. Hamlet's flaw is not that he wants justice for his father's death, but in the way that it becomes an obsession and is hidden from the rest of the kingdom until t
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