Hamlet
In the play Hamlet, written by William Shakespeare, we meet the main protagonist Hamlet who has a tragic flaw of procrastination. Throughout the play, Shakespeare shows us how Hamlet is faced with many difficult questions within himself that he cannot answer with any certainty. Shakespeare also shows us how Hamlet changes due to the events surrounding the recent murder of his father King Hamlet and of his flaw. In the beginning, Hamlet is a very angry, depressed and suicidal man who becomes a contemplative and procrastinating tragic hero in the end. In the beginning while Hamlet mourns the death of his father King Hamlet, he becomes increasingly angry and depressed with the quick marriage of his mother Queen Gertrude to his uncle, and now King, Claudius. In disbelief of the untimely nature of the Queens actions to remarry, Hamlet contemplates suicide, viewing Claudius court as "an unweeded garden/ rank and gross in nature"(1. ... Believing that the marriage was incestuous, Hamlet cannot believe that his mother, "Frailty, thy name is woman"(1. ... When Hamlet comes into contact with the ghost of his father King Hamlet, he informs Hamlet that his father was murdered and that "The serpent that did sting thy fathers life/ Now wears the crown" (1. ... This information angers Hamlet and believing that the ghost is "an honest ghost"(1. ... 29) but the ghost warns Hamlet "Against thy mother aught. ... Instead of acting quickly on his promise, Hamlet decides that he instead will "put an antic disposition on"(1. ... Hamlet refers to Denmark as "a prison"(2. ... Once Hamlet is alone and is speaking in his soliloquy, he starts to question himself "Am I a coward? ... Hamlet comes up with a plan when the players arrive at Elsinore. His plan is to write a "play within a play," a scene that will re-enact the murder of his father King Hamlet to establish a more reliable basis for Claudius guilt than the claims of the ghost and to "catch the conscience of the King (Claudius)"(2.