Hamlet's Tragic Flaws
A tragic flaw is the failing of a tragic hero, a character who suffers a downfall through the tragic flaw in mistaken choices or in personality. Hamlet’s tragic flaw, his incapacity to act to take revenge for his father’s death. Which leads to him and many others including; his queen gertrude, Polonius, Laertes and Ophelia, to their deaths. When the Ghost, his dead father, appears to him and charges him with the effortful task of taking revenge for his most foul murder, Hamlet is motivated to accept the challenge even though he fears to.
One of Hamlet’s ultimate demises were that he was unable to retaliate his father's death by playing mind games with king claudius and queen gertrude. In him doing this hamlet had to convince everyone including himself, that he has gone madly insane because he is grieving over his father's death. Hamlet was only doing this so king claudius would just confess to everyone including hamlet that he had murdered king hamlet. When hamlet says “But now listen to me. No matter how strangely I act you must never, ever let on...with …show more content…
a gesture of your hands or a certain expression on your face, that you know anything about what happened to me here tonight. You must never say anything like, “Ah, yes, just as we suspected,” or “We could tell you a thing or two about him,” or anything like that. Swear you won’t”, he is explaining the plans to horatio and friends about what he was going to do to get claudius to confess.
Another one of hamlet's tragic flaws were the female characters in this story.
Either it was his love for ophelia and vise versa or it was his disgusted feeling for his mother decisions. In the case of his mother, Gertrude, who married claudius, king hamlet’s brother, just a few days after king hamlet died. Hamlet feels she remarried too quickly and that her remarriage means she didn't love her first husband that much. She seems clearly to love king Hamlet, but Hamlet sees her as a weak, even corrupt, woman influenced solely by lust. With hamlet dealing with that his love for ophelia got deeper and stronger. When hamlet found out that ophelia had died in act 5 he said ,“I loved Ophelia. Forty thousand brothers Could not with all their quantity of love Make up my sum”. Which basically means that hamlet was so in love with ophelia that not even 40 thousand brothers’ love combined couldn't match his love for
her.
In conclusion, Hamlet, the tragic flaw determines his downfall in the play. And his tragic flaw is his indecisiveness that is due to debating on whether revenge is wrong or right, and whether to kill his father's slayer or not.
One of Hamlet’s ultimate demises were that he was unable to retaliate his father's death by playing mind games with king claudius and queen gertrude. In him doing this hamlet had to convince everyone including himself, that he has gone madly insane because he is grieving over his father's death. Hamlet was only doing this so king claudius would just confess to everyone including hamlet that he had murdered king hamlet. When hamlet says “But now listen to me. No matter how strangely I act you must never, ever let on...with …show more content…
a gesture of your hands or a certain expression on your face, that you know anything about what happened to me here tonight. You must never say anything like, “Ah, yes, just as we suspected,” or “We could tell you a thing or two about him,” or anything like that. Swear you won’t”, he is explaining the plans to horatio and friends about what he was going to do to get claudius to confess.
Another one of hamlet's tragic flaws were the female characters in this story.
Either it was his love for ophelia and vise versa or it was his disgusted feeling for his mother decisions. In the case of his mother, Gertrude, who married claudius, king hamlet’s brother, just a few days after king hamlet died. Hamlet feels she remarried too quickly and that her remarriage means she didn't love her first husband that much. She seems clearly to love king Hamlet, but Hamlet sees her as a weak, even corrupt, woman influenced solely by lust. With hamlet dealing with that his love for ophelia got deeper and stronger. When hamlet found out that ophelia had died in act 5 he said ,“I loved Ophelia. Forty thousand brothers Could not with all their quantity of love Make up my sum”. Which basically means that hamlet was so in love with ophelia that not even 40 thousand brothers’ love combined couldn't match his love for
her.
In conclusion, Hamlet, the tragic flaw determines his downfall in the play. And his tragic flaw is his indecisiveness that is due to debating on whether revenge is wrong or right, and whether to kill his father's slayer or not.