Hamlet: a man of thought and action or a failure?
In order to be a man of thought and action you must have the ability to think
quickly on your feet. Hamlet doesn't do this at all. It is totally agreeable that the man of
action definitely would be Fortinbras. He know what he wants and knows how to get it.
The man of thought is always going to be Horatio. He thinks and reacts only when it is
totally necessary. That's what makes Horatio the more sensible of the two.
Hamlet is too indecisive to be a man of thought and action. When he had the
perfect chance to kill Claudius for killing his father, he decided to not kill him. "Now
might I do it pat, now 'a is a praying, and now I'll do't. And so 'a goes to Heaven, and so
I am revenged. That would be scanned. A villain kills my father, and for that I his sole son
do this same villain sent to Heaven."
By Hamlet not killing Caludius when he had the chance becomes very ironic that
by Hamlet thinking then acting when it is supposed to be a good thing it ends up being bad
at the end of the play. The man Hamlet should of killed ends up killing him because he
didn't act on his instinct as he should have.
As for Fortinbras being the man of action, that's agreeable. Fortinbras doesn't care
what it takes to get what he wants. He likes to fight and be in charge. This is shown when
Fortinbras takes his army through the land, his uncle lost to capture other land which has
no meaning to them at all. "I have some rights of memory in this kingdom which now to
claim my vantage doth invite me."
Finally, the man of thought: Horatio. Horatio is the brave one. Horatio wanted
to speak to the ghost and wanted to figure everything out. "O speak or if thou hast
abhorred in thy life exhorted treasure in the OMB of the earth, for which, they say, you
spirits oft walking in death speak of...