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Yehoshua King

3/18/15
Hamlet Essay

Careful, meticulous planning requires the avoidance of haste and delay
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However if too much time is put into a plan, the opportunity to accomplish it
may come and go or the circumstances may change
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Hamlet delays avenging his father’s death because he needs time to uncover the methods
of the murder as well as the assassin, he wants to plan carefully how to fulfill his revenge on
Claudius, and he needs to be assured that his enemies are eliminated
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He said,
All is not well
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Until he sees his father’s ghost, Hamlet has no knowledge of how his father has died
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Not until Hamlet arranges and
witnesses the play, The Murder of Gonzago, with his family does he ascertain that Claudius
murdered his father
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During the

play, King Claudius angrily runs out, and now Hamlet is certain of Claudius’s guilt
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After the play, Hamlet happens upon his first opportunity to kill Claudius
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Since Claudius has not given King
Hamlet the chance to repent for his sins, Hamlet decides not to slay Claudius during his time of
prayer as seen when Hamlet says,
Now might I do it (pat,) now he is a-praying,
And now I’ll do ’t
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) That would be scanned:
A villain kills my father, and, for that,
I, his sole son, do this same villain send
To heaven
(Act 3, Scene 3, Lines 77-83, Page 167)
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This visitation
Is but to whet thy almost blunted purpose
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O, step between her and her fighting soul
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Speak to her, Hamlet
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When
Fortinbras, Prince of Norway, passes through Denmark, Hamlet notices how successful
Fortinbras is and wishes he was the same
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When Hamlet says,
How all occasions do inform against me,
And spur my dull revenge! What is a man
If his chief good and market of his time
Be but to sleep and feed?
A beast, no more
(Act 4, Scene 4, Lines 34-37, Page 203),
we can see how Fortinbras’s loyalty to his father causes Hamlet to recognize that he needs to
quicken his revenge
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Hamlet thinks that his mother may have had a part in the murder of his father
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This causes
Laertes to be infuriated with Hamlet
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On the boat Hamlet discovers that Claudius had written a letter to the
King of England signing his death warrant
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When Hamlet returns to Denmark he discovers that Ophelia is dead and that Laertes is
blaming him for her death
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At the beginning of
the match, Gertrude drinks from the poisoned cup that Claudius had prepared for Hamlet
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In the third round of the
competition, Laertes wounds Hamlet with the poison tipped rapier and after exchanging
swords, Hamlet grazes Laertes in return
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Exchange forgiveness with me, noble Hamlet
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In his indignation Hamlet finally kills Claudius by constraining him to drink his own poison
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In my opinion, Hamlet is doing the right thing by not rushing into action
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This had
severe consequences
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If he had acted faster, all these people may not have died

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