Hamlet is continuously wanting to do something but does nothing. He is forced to make decisions based on his moral and religious beliefs.
             Hamlet is as little of the hero as a man can be. He is incapable of action, and is only hurried into extremities on the spur of the occasion when he has no time to reflect. At other times, when he is bound to act, he remains puzzled, undecided, and skeptical. He dallies with his purposes, until the occasion is lost.
             Hamlet's first scene with his mother reveals a weakness other than his father's death. The quote, "I have that within which passeth show, These but the trappings and the suits of woe," is used by Hamlet to mock his mother for her lack of grief for his father, her dead husband. At this point in the speech, Hamlet may merely mean that his grief for his father is genuine, but may also mean that he has some sort of feeling that can not be shown by his black clothing and cloudy face. These feelings that may very well be hidden from his own conscious are a truth to his indecisiveness on anything he attempts. Indecision in a man, or woman, for that matter, is a strong symbol of his/her lack of perception.
             Hamlet says that the King is "My father's brother, but no more like my father/ Than I to Hercules." This comment made by Hamlet, makes it appear that he does not consider himself particularly strong or heroic. If one does not have confidence in his own self, how can any other person have confidence in him?
             At one point in the play, Hamlet makes the quote, "O, what a rogue and peasant slave am I!" There are two points to this quote. One being that Hamlet blames himself for lack of passion. If one is to be strong and carry through his ideas, he must contain the passion to set these goals in action. The mentioning of a peasant slave brings about the second point to this quote. When one thinks of a slave, he thinks of a quiet, weak, humble servant; someone who cowers down to...