Hamlet - The tragic flaws
...An example of this is seen when he hears a "rat" listening in on his dialogue with his mother in Act III, (scene 4). Without necessary thought, Hamlet draws his sword and kills Polonius. Another example to support this is in Act I (scene4) when Hamlet threatens his friends and follows the potentially dangerous ghost into the forest without any thought. The more Hamlet dwells and thinks throughout the play, the more consistent he becomes on revenge. Hamlet. How all occasions do inform against me, And spur my dull revenge! What is a man, If his chief good and market of his time Be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more. Sure, he that made us with such large discourse, Looking before and after, gave us not That capability and god-like reason To fust in us unused. Now, whether it be Bestial oblivion, or some craven scruple Of thinking too precisely on the event, A thought which, quarter'd, hath but one part wisdom And ever three parts coward, I do not know Why yet I live to say 'This thing's to do;' Sith I have cause and will and strength and means To do't. Examples gross as earth exhort me: Witness this army of such mass and charge Led by a delicate and tender prince, Whose spirit with divine ambition puff'd Makes mouths at the invisible event, Exposing what is mortal and unsure To all that fortune, death and danger dare, Even for an egg-shell. Rightly to be great Is not to stir without great argument, But greatly to find quarrel in a straw When honour's at the stake. How stand I then, That have a father kill'd, a mother stain'd, Excitements of my reason and my blood, And let all sleep? while, to my shame, I see The imminent death of twenty thousand men, That, for a fantasy and trick of fame, Go to their graves like beds, fight for a plot Whereon the numbers cannot try the cause, Which is not tomb enough and continent To hide the slain? O, from this time forth, My thoughts be bloody, or be nothing worth! Hamlet also gets killed in the end. Perhaps Hamlet, unable to act himself, unconsciously arranges to get himself killed. Perhaps also Hamlet's death can be seen as an act of justice because of his responsibility in the deaths of Ophelia and others. The flaw of Hamlet may be that his nature is so excessively concerned about death that he no longer knows right from left. The death of his father make him think about it, day and night. All Hamlet does, is dwell around death and suicide in almost every one of his soliloquies. Everything Hamlet does in this play is centred on something or someone dying that is why his overwhelming interest and curiosity of death will eventually lead him to his own grave. Hamlet’s first thought of death probably occurred after his father’s death. When his father died, Hamlet did not know it was murder therefore; Hamlet probably began questioning god and his ways of working. Then, when his mother marries his uncle, Hamlet is so angry that he considers death aloud in his very first soliloquy. Act I (scene 2) Hamlet: O, that this too solid flesh would melt Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew! Or that the Everlasting had not fixed His cannon ‘gainst self-slaughter! Here, Hamlet is essentially wishing that he were dead, and that he wishes god had not made suicide a sin, for even if Hamlet is not afraid of death, he is afraid of what may lie ahead after death. Right after saying this, Hamlet meets his father’s ghost. Hamlet most constantly deal with death. He meets a ghost, who is a dead man, and the ghost tells him to kill the man who killed his father. All this makes H...