Hamlet's Actions

One’s actions are proven to be more powerful than the words they say, as it is comes naturally for people to speak without reasoning. People’s actions display how they truly behave towards what they believe in towards what they say, as their actions back up and defend their words. If a person does not do as they say, then he or she is overlooked in society and is not trusted upon. As the author Dr. DaShanne Stokes said ‘“If your actions don’t live up to your words, you have nothing to say”’ (GoodReads). Actions will always define a person’s credibility and determine whether or not that person is actually truthful and honest.
William Shakespeare evidently demonstrates in Hamlet, a play filled with a character who both fulfills his words with corresponding actions. Hamlet shows the audience that he can be trusted upon, but also has trouble in the process and gets stumped along the way. Therefore, leaving the audience in question as to if he is truly trustworthy. Throughout the play, Hamlet is foreseen to take the actions necessary based upon his words, but he is obstructed by other characters causing him to fall short of completing his promise until the end of the play. By the anger and fury that Hamlet possesses in the beginning of the play, the audience would expect for him to kill …show more content…
In the first act the audience is shown that Hamlet is quick to speak, rather than think, when he says “So, uncle, there