" How all occasions do inform against me and spur my revenge! What is a man, if his chief good and market of his time but to sleep and feed... A thought which, quartered, hath but one part wisdom and ever three parts coward- I do not know why yet I live to say 'This thing's to do,"(Hamlet: 4.5 ln 33-45). In our life we often linger in our thoughts and cloud our minds with fear and morality, instead of taking action. There are times when we are faced with the truth but yet we choose to ignore it. Hamlet, by William Shakespeare, is about a Prince of Denmark who undergoes many obstacles and tragedies in hopes to avenge his father's death. Like all of William Shakespeare's tragedies, Hamlet bears a tragic flaw that not only affects his life, but the lives of others as well. Hamlet's flaw is that, he lacks the ability to take action towards the murder of his father thus jeopardizing not only his life, but also the lives of Ophelia, Gertrude, and Laertes.
             Hamlet's tragic flaw is well observed in Act
             in Act 1 scene 5 when he is faced with the ghost of his late father, King Hamlet. In this scene, King Hamlet tells Hamlet that his brother, Hamlet's uncle, murdered him and asks Hamlet to, "Revenge his foul and most unnatural murder." Hamlet questions the nature of the ghost by stating, " Angels and ministers of grace defend us! Be thou a spirit of health or goblin damned, bring with thee airs from heaven or blasts from hell." Although Hamlet is faced with the truth, he delays his actions.
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