The Role Of Obstacles In Shakespeare's Hamlet

I’ll Leave This for Later Obstacles are known to be put in people’s paths to make them stronger sometimes even guide onto a more clearer road. William Shakespeare is known to have written plays and poems centuries ago. They are difficult to understand or analyze because of the style of writing but not impossible. In Shakespeare’s play Hamlet, the main character as the title suggests Hamlet is trying to get revenge for his father, Old Hamlet’s death. Old Hamlet did not die of natural causes, he was murdered by his brother, Claudius. After Old Hamlet’s death, Claudius is the new king of Denmark and marries Hamlet’s mother Gertrude. They get married only 2 months after the death of Old Hamlet, while Old Hamlet and Gertrude have been married for many years. As the story progresses Horatio, Hamlet’s friend and messenger tells him he was seen something unbelievable; it is believed to be the ghost of Hamlet’s …show more content…
Hamlet is delayed by a combination of internal character traits and external obstacles because he is moral , he is not sure whether to trust the ghost, he is not sure how to follow the ghost’s instructions, and …show more content…
He was taught morals between what is good and bad. A reason why Hamlet is delayed in his plan is because he needed to get revenge which would bring honor to his father but by bringing honor he would hurt others. Was Hamlet ready to die or kill for his father’s death? Maybe he was but he was only a young man going through many things, “How all occasions…earth exhort me” (Act IV, Scene 4, lines 32-46). Hamlet is delayed because he hesitates on the actions he is going to do. His hesitation is viewed as an act of a coward but not at all, it shows he has the emotion to not do that. In the previous lines stated Hamlet’s mind says one but does another. He is stuck between saying what he is doing to do against what he should not. He is considering the future and the past just shows he is stuck between