Why Is Hamlet Avenge His Father?
When reading Hamlet some people may wonder, what’s keeping him from doing the things he needs to do? Why is he taking a long time to avenge his father? There are many factors that affect our decision or hold us back, some that we may not be aware of.
In the play, we see Hamlet struggle to execute revenge against his uncle for his father’s sake, so what’s holding him back? “A dull and muddy-mettled rascal, peak like John-a-dreams, unpregnant of my cause, and can say nothing! No, not for a king, upon whose property and most deaf life a damned defeat was made. Am I a coward?” (II.ii. 582-586). Hamlet even asks himself for the reason as to why he hasn’t acted on his revenge after watching an actor convey more emotion acting out a speech. Many people agonize over decisions. Difficulty in making decisions can be a sign of depression. “When one is in the throes of despair, there may be a pessimistic inability to act” (Barron). It’s not …show more content…
“That would be scanned, A villain kills my father; and for that, I, his sole son, do this same villain send to heaven” (III.iii.75-78). Hamlet had the chance to kill Claudius but didn’t because he was praying and he didn’t want Claudius’s soul to be sent to heaven. Despite the fact that Claudius didn’t give feelings to his prayer, a prayer without conviction would have sent him to hell. “Intellectualization can also underlie a number of logical fallacies and rhetorical blind alleys, such as raising irrelevant or trivial counter-arguments, rejecting an argument on the basis of an inaccurate example or exceptional case, using exact numbers for inexact or abstract notions, and ‘blinding with science’” (Burton). Perhaps, due to the excitement of proving his uncle’s guilt through the play, rather than seeing a chance to exact his revenge, Hamlet made up an excuse to continue the excitement
In the play, we see Hamlet struggle to execute revenge against his uncle for his father’s sake, so what’s holding him back? “A dull and muddy-mettled rascal, peak like John-a-dreams, unpregnant of my cause, and can say nothing! No, not for a king, upon whose property and most deaf life a damned defeat was made. Am I a coward?” (II.ii. 582-586). Hamlet even asks himself for the reason as to why he hasn’t acted on his revenge after watching an actor convey more emotion acting out a speech. Many people agonize over decisions. Difficulty in making decisions can be a sign of depression. “When one is in the throes of despair, there may be a pessimistic inability to act” (Barron). It’s not …show more content…
“That would be scanned, A villain kills my father; and for that, I, his sole son, do this same villain send to heaven” (III.iii.75-78). Hamlet had the chance to kill Claudius but didn’t because he was praying and he didn’t want Claudius’s soul to be sent to heaven. Despite the fact that Claudius didn’t give feelings to his prayer, a prayer without conviction would have sent him to hell. “Intellectualization can also underlie a number of logical fallacies and rhetorical blind alleys, such as raising irrelevant or trivial counter-arguments, rejecting an argument on the basis of an inaccurate example or exceptional case, using exact numbers for inexact or abstract notions, and ‘blinding with science’” (Burton). Perhaps, due to the excitement of proving his uncle’s guilt through the play, rather than seeing a chance to exact his revenge, Hamlet made up an excuse to continue the excitement