"How came he dead? I'll not be juggled with. To hell, allegiance! Vows, to the blackest devil! Conscience and grace, to the profoundest pit! (4. 5. 148-150). Looking at Hamlet's reactions, one detail cannot be overlooked, Hamlet does not kill Claudius in church, while he has the best chance of doing so up until that point. This little detail, and it is really a little detail, for if it was more important, Shakespeare would have wrote more on it rather than only a tiny bit, tends to affect the reader's evaluation of Hamlet's delay. After the Ghost appears, he ignores the fears of his friends, is strong enough to break off their restraining hold, and still kills
"How came he dead? I'll not be juggled with. To hell, allegiance! Vows, to the blackest devil! Conscience and grace, to the profoundest pit! (4. 5. 148-150). Looking at Hamlet's reactions, one detail cannot be overlooked, Hamlet does not kill Claudius in church, while he has the best chance of doing so up until that point. This little detail, and it is really a little detail, for if it was more important, Shakespeare would have wrote more on it rather than only a tiny bit, tends to affect the reader's evaluation of Hamlet's delay. After the Ghost appears, he ignores the fears of his friends, is strong enough to break off their restraining hold, and still kills