Indecision is as contagious as a virus that can destroy everything. The outcome when one procrastinates and fails to act may lead to horrific outcomes. Shakespeare portrays Hamlet as noble, intelligent, loyal, and contemplative. However, he is constantly questioning his position in life, especially when his father passed away, and when his mother married his father’s brother. One night, the ghost of his deceased father returns to Elsinore, and asks young Hamlet to avenge his death and kill the source of the treachery; although, it requires Hamlet to challenge the morals by which he has been raised. Appalled by the requests of the ghost, Hamlet answers, “haste me to know’t, that I, with wings as swift/ As meditation or the thoughts of love
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A cause of his inability to make a commitment is his radical belief in God. An example that made him question two paths based on his belief is questioning whether or not he should commit suicide. Claudius is named King and marries the wife of Old Hamlet, Gertrude, within a month of his death. Before their festive reception, King Claudius enters with Queen Gertrude and their trusted advisor Polonius. Hamlet, left to mourn for his father’s death all alone, begins to go through a period of depression. Everyone around him is happy, and he ponders why he is the only one upset about his father. He comes down to two options: to kill himself or to live in eternal sadness. Hamlet, overwhelmed with conflicting emotions cries …show more content…
In this case with Hamlet, his inability to act upon his vows leads to negative consequences. Because he does not act to kill Claudius as swiftly as he mentioned to the ghost of his father, other people whom he loves dies in place of him. For example, Ophelia is a young noblewoman from Denmark and is the daughter of the most trusted advisor, Polonius. She is also the potential wife for Prince Hamlet as the two of them spend most of their free time together. Hamlet with all his madness and inability to choose a specific time to kill the King, ends up killing Polonius after having a heated conversation with his mother. This event proved to be a major turnover because deepened with sadness, Ophelia than resumes to kill herself. At the graveyard where Ophelia is buried, Laertes and the Gertrude solemnly follow her coffin. In the midst of the trees, Hamlet finds out who is in the coffin, and angrily, he shouts to Laertes saying, “I loved Ophelia. Forty thousand brothers / Could not with all their quantity of love / Make up my sum” (5.1.285-287). Ultimately, after choosing not to kill Claudius the one chance he got, other people such as both Polonius and Ophelia died instead. People whom he has lived with his entire life was swept away within a blink of an eye because of his incapability to kill Claudius. Another person
A cause of his inability to make a commitment is his radical belief in God. An example that made him question two paths based on his belief is questioning whether or not he should commit suicide. Claudius is named King and marries the wife of Old Hamlet, Gertrude, within a month of his death. Before their festive reception, King Claudius enters with Queen Gertrude and their trusted advisor Polonius. Hamlet, left to mourn for his father’s death all alone, begins to go through a period of depression. Everyone around him is happy, and he ponders why he is the only one upset about his father. He comes down to two options: to kill himself or to live in eternal sadness. Hamlet, overwhelmed with conflicting emotions cries …show more content…
In this case with Hamlet, his inability to act upon his vows leads to negative consequences. Because he does not act to kill Claudius as swiftly as he mentioned to the ghost of his father, other people whom he loves dies in place of him. For example, Ophelia is a young noblewoman from Denmark and is the daughter of the most trusted advisor, Polonius. She is also the potential wife for Prince Hamlet as the two of them spend most of their free time together. Hamlet with all his madness and inability to choose a specific time to kill the King, ends up killing Polonius after having a heated conversation with his mother. This event proved to be a major turnover because deepened with sadness, Ophelia than resumes to kill herself. At the graveyard where Ophelia is buried, Laertes and the Gertrude solemnly follow her coffin. In the midst of the trees, Hamlet finds out who is in the coffin, and angrily, he shouts to Laertes saying, “I loved Ophelia. Forty thousand brothers / Could not with all their quantity of love / Make up my sum” (5.1.285-287). Ultimately, after choosing not to kill Claudius the one chance he got, other people such as both Polonius and Ophelia died instead. People whom he has lived with his entire life was swept away within a blink of an eye because of his incapability to kill Claudius. Another person