Thinking before speaking or taking action has always been encouraged, but when does thinking too much on a subject hurt more than help? Shakespeare 's Hamlet is a tragedy where almost every character of importance is killed. The play is set mostly in Denmark with Hamlet 's mother and step-father/uncle as king and queen. Some of the prince 's character traits throughout the story include patience, loyalty, lack of self-worth, and introspective, however, one of Hamlet 's more important and evident character traits is indecisiveness. Hamlet 's indecisiveness throughout the play was Hamlet 's flaw as he ended up creating many problems for himself and for others by not acting on his thoughts.
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Hamlet 's flaw as indecisiveness became more evident in the middle of the play in more than one form. After Hamlet met the actors that were there to preform a play, he formulated a plan and said, “The play 's the thing/Wherein I 'll catch the conscience of the king.” (II, ii, 600-601) Hamlet was not only indecisive about when he should act, but began to doubt Cladius ' guilt. This caused him to change the play the actors were to preform to reenact his father 's murder. When Cladius got up to leave the play when the murder scene came up this proved his guilt to Hamlet. Furthermore, Hamlet 's indecisiveness was shown again when he went to kill Cladius but instead …show more content…
This may have been a reasonable thought based on Hamlet 's beliefs but his unclear ideas about whether or not to kill Cladius only caused more problems in the future. When Hamlet was fighting with his mother and Polonius was behind the arras listening Hamlet said, “ 'How now? A rat! Dead for ducat, dead. '/ 'O, I am slain. '” (III, iv, 23-24) Hamlet thought it was Cladius behind the arras when he stabbed through it but it was Polonius he killed. Hamlet 's indecisiveness was the root cause of Polonius ' death, Ophelia 's madness and eventual death, and the conflict between Laertes and Hamlet. In conclusion, Hamlet 's indecisiveness progressed during the middle of the play to cause a lot of problems that shaped the end of the
The character trait, indecisiveness is one Hamlet …show more content…
Hamlet 's flaw as indecisiveness became more evident in the middle of the play in more than one form. After Hamlet met the actors that were there to preform a play, he formulated a plan and said, “The play 's the thing/Wherein I 'll catch the conscience of the king.” (II, ii, 600-601) Hamlet was not only indecisive about when he should act, but began to doubt Cladius ' guilt. This caused him to change the play the actors were to preform to reenact his father 's murder. When Cladius got up to leave the play when the murder scene came up this proved his guilt to Hamlet. Furthermore, Hamlet 's indecisiveness was shown again when he went to kill Cladius but instead …show more content…
This may have been a reasonable thought based on Hamlet 's beliefs but his unclear ideas about whether or not to kill Cladius only caused more problems in the future. When Hamlet was fighting with his mother and Polonius was behind the arras listening Hamlet said, “ 'How now? A rat! Dead for ducat, dead. '/ 'O, I am slain. '” (III, iv, 23-24) Hamlet thought it was Cladius behind the arras when he stabbed through it but it was Polonius he killed. Hamlet 's indecisiveness was the root cause of Polonius ' death, Ophelia 's madness and eventual death, and the conflict between Laertes and Hamlet. In conclusion, Hamlet 's indecisiveness progressed during the middle of the play to cause a lot of problems that shaped the end of the