Essay On Hamlet Coward

Insanity: a derangement of the mind. Coward: someone who lacks courage and bravery in the face of danger, difficulty, hardships, opposition, or pain. Hamlet: a character that rapidly loses his sanity after a strange encounter with his father’s ghost and acts indecisively out of fear for his own fate. In Act 1 of Hamlet, the tragic hero, Hamlet, confides in his friends that he is going to begin to act mad. As the play progresses, it is obvious that Hamlet’s madness becomes a reality rather than just an appearance and is connected to his desire of revenge for the gruesome murder of his father by his uncle. Day after day, Hamlet tirelessly contemplates how to reap the victory of revenge. However, this tragic hero is a tragic coward, which can be ultimately noted for his tragic downfall, as it contributed to his madness, causing his rapid mental decay and inhibiting his ability to make a decisive action, leaving him to be the weak one in the end. Hamlet knows that Claudius killed his father, and when the opportunity arises to get his revenge, Hamlet is too much of a coward to take it. Claudius appears to be praying, so Hamlet decides it isn’t the right time to kill him; “A
This tragic flaw leads to Hamlet’s ultimate demise. If he was brave, Hamlet would have been able to conquer his quest of revenge, but he fell flat and let his cowardice hold him back. It drove him mad to know that he was his own worst enemy, that he was the reason the search for the revenge of his father’s death was so drawn out, that he couldn’t control his emotions enough to care about anything other than his own selfish, cowardly desires but still couldn’t follow through on them. Even though he got his revenge in the end, he can’t be considered completely victorious as a hero because he died as an insane coward and will be remembered for his