Hamlet

Why does Hamlet delay his revenge on King Claudius' Throughout the whole play, Hamlet constant indecisive and hesitant about avenging the dead of his father from the time he see the ghost and till the end of his dead. When the ghost King Hamlet appears and tells his son that Claudius killed him by pouring poison in his ear, Hamlet does not act upon the word of the specter. He takes time to think about what apparition of to him. He contemplates whether it is a true resemblance of his late father or evil spirit . Hamlet attitude changes in a heartbeat and gives himself the challenge to find out the truth and prove it but still he plans things out analyses the situation. He asks actors to perform a play on the scheme of the death of his father. Here Hamlet has devised whether Claudius truly killed his father. After doing the play involving a murder similar to what the ghost has described, still he unsure how can he confirmed that his uncle killed his father accordance to the play. Hamlet discovers Claudius’ guilt but has no evidence to present to the people. Apart from that I would can say that Hamlet is still in grieves of his beloved father death, a person that he looks up as a”greatest man” and the quick remarriage of his mother Gertrude are too much confusing and he is not really sure what is going on to make a quick action upon his father death. During some parts of the play the reader might be under the impression that Hamlet dislikes his mother but on the contrary he still loves her even though she seems to have left him cornered. Hamlet is aggressive towards his mother hoping to make her understand the actions and consequences that she has invoked but at the same time maybe he also may not wanted to emotionally hurt his mother by killing Claudius, literally lost her husband twice. Hamlet still have the unselfish ethics even he have the ability to avenge for his father but because of his intentions were beyond the self satisfaction e delay the murder. Another reason why I think that Hamlet delay his revenge on Kind Claudius is, he is far too sane and practical to commit an act of murder. In other words, basic sanity keeps him from killing Claudius. Although he had the impulsive act and at other time prone to rash cause him to act inappropriately (accidently killed Polonius) may leads him to rationality to his next action. According to the play we know that Hamlet is educated and wise as he is the Prince of Denmark, and his religious imperative to act morally and according to Christian dictates is also powerful and prevalent in him. From the play also I believe that Hamlet simply thinks too much. He wants the murder of the King to be perfect. Claudius has to go to hell. The people have to know about the murderer Claudius. Hamlet spends too much time planning and not enough time doing (commit the murder) thus, making the King's murder more complicated than other murders he has orchestrated. He had so many plans and ways coming up in his mind on how to avenge his father death. Also, he has to be careful around Claudius after the play because it revealed his sanity to the King as it revealed the guilt of Claudius to Hamlet. After the play within a play, Hamlet has proof and still cannot act. Not until everybody is dying, including himself, does he realizes that he should not have waited so long. He understands the consequences of his delay, all of his pent-up rage explodes, and he murders the King, getting the revenge he was after from the beginning. Besides, it’s a very interesting discontinuity and it's a vital one to the play as a whole, branching into all sorts of secondary questions about religion and motive, and perhaps even offering a deeper understanding of Hamlet's slow movement to act beyond simply that he was a procrastinator.