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A five-page paper analyzing the many instances in which the title character of Shakespeare's classic play postpones decisive action. The paper asserts that in the long run, this procrastination causes more injustice and hurts more people than an early decisive action would have done. No additional sources.
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of his father, who was murdered some months before. The crime has remained unsolved, but the ghost tells Hamlet that the murderer was actually Hamlets uncle Claudius, who in the
meantime has married Hamlets mother and is now sitting on the throne. The ghost calls upon Hamlet to avenge his death by killing Claudius. Had Hamlet been an instinctual character,
he would have immediately run out and done so, and there would have been no play to speak of. But Hamlet cannot do this. He spends the next four and
a half acts ruminating about the philosophical and ethical considerations of one course of action versus another, occasionally expressing his anxiety in little bursts of activity, most of which dont
seem to get him any closer to avenging his fathers death. There is no question that Hamlet is really not a play of action, it is a play of psychology
under extreme stress. Nonetheless, it is possible to trace Hamlets actions (such as they are) throughout the play and show how they prepare us for the denouement to come. One
of the first things Hamlet does after the encounter with his fathers ghost is go to the "closet" or bedroom of his girlfriend Ophelia. Ophelia lives in the palace because
her father Polonius is an aide to Claudius. We do not actually see Hamlet going into Ophelias room, but hear about it from her troubled report to her father and
the King: "His doublet all unbraced;/ No hat upon his head; his stockings fould,/ Ungarterd, and down-gyved to his ankle;/ Pale as his shirt; his knees knocking each other;/ And
with a look so piteous in purport/ As if he had been loosed out of hell/ to speak of horrors, -- he comes before me" (II, i, 78-84). He grabs
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