How Is Hamlet Hesitant

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Hamlet is a very passive-aggressive and hesitant character. He is very reluctant as to taking revenge for his father’s death. The main reason that he is so slow to act is because he questions the authenticity and creditability about the information he receives through the ghost of his late father. He feels the need to find more evidence about the fact that his uncle, Claudius kills his father. In act II scene II In Hamlet's soliloquy at the end, “Why what an ass am I! This is most brave, That I, the son of a dear father murdered, Prompted to my revenge by heaven and hell.” (II.II. 560-562) Hamlet has a hard time coping with fact that one his mother married his uncle instantaneously, and the understanding that what the ghost said is true or

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