Are Hamlet's Decisive And Clever In His Actions

He is the young courtier who carries Claudius' message to Hamlet, proposing the duel between Hamlet and Laertes. Osric has the outwardly verbose and superficial manner of the courtier. Hamlet mocks him in their interchange, but Osric is insensitive to the intended ridicule.

Although this scene provides the final catastrophe of the action, the first episode concerns an exchange of information between Hamlet and Horatio about Hamlet's rescue form certain death, and serves to demonstrate Hamlet's change in behavior. From the start, we see a Hamlet who is decisive and clever in his actions, specifically in dealing with Rosencrantz and Guilderstern's commission. Although he says, "Sir, in my heart there was a kind of fighting/That would not let
me sleep,", he was able to save his life though rash action. But there is irony in his further statement, "There's a divinity that shapes our ends,/Rough-hew them how we will -." The fact that he sent his false friends Rosencrantz and Guilderstern to their death and even now feels no qualms of conscience about this deed ("They are not near my conscience; their defeat/Does by their own insinuation grow."), shows a change in attitude.