Hamlet's Flaws

In every person there is a flaw of some sort, due to the fact that no one is perfect. All humans have at least one flaw in their life that they struggle with. In the play Hamlet, by William Shakespeare, the young prince possesses a flaw of his own. He struggled with this flaw that led him to a tragedy in his life. How much struggled with procrastination, and that led him to many problems that he could have resolved much differently.
From the beginning of the play one way that Hamlet could have handled the situation more efficiently and helped saved his fate would be when he attempted to kill the king after showing his play. Throughout the entire story, Hamlet had intentions of eliminating the king but kept pushing it aside. Hamlet was procrastinating the murder of King Claudius. After hamlet receive the word of Claudius being the murderer of his father, he …show more content…
Hamlet spent so much time doing so many other things that were irrelevant to the main mission he had. There were a few days where he taught the play, “You are welcome masters, welcome all”( 2.2.437).Then he announced the date of the upcoming play he was putting on “we’ll hear an play tomorrow,” (2.2.550).. In the movie, he also wasted time watching Ophelia his lover, and acting mad to put on a show. There were many different days he spent doing the wrong things. He should have been completing the task of eliminating the king. After all these events it is completely obvious why Hamlets biggest flaw was procrastination. He pushed so many chances aside, and too much time wasted acting mad. Hamlet's fate was caused by his own procrastination of killing the king which could have saved his own life, but due to Hamlet not doing things on time he ended in a tragic fate. Even though at the end justice was served, Hamlet still did not win, because he finally getting justice also cost his life to due to his