How Does Hamlet Kill Himself

Hamlet’s character throughout the soliloquy is shown to be a slow decision maker. In this soliloquy, we get to see how Hamlet talks about life and death but when he thinks too much about it, his thoughts start to lose there beauty and feeling. This is depicted in the following lines. “And lose the name of action. Soft you now/The fair Ophelia! Nymph, in thy orisons/Be all my sins remember’d (3.1.89-91). Hamlet is scared to take decisions and as a result, more

When King Hamlet passes away everyone seemed to want to just forget about him and act like he never existed, including Queen Gertrude. That would explain why Hamlet really wants to get revenge on Claudius so bad. He wants his father to still have some sort of legacy and not just be thrown away like a piece of trash. Since Claudius became king he just shows his true self more and more which makes Hamlet angrier and his sense for revenge stronger.

Throughout the play, Hamlet shows many examples of being an indecisive person and being unable to do anything he wants to, as if something stops him. An example would be in act five, when he decides to confess his love for Ophelia on her grave. He took too long to tell Ophelia or anyone for the matter about his love for her. Another example would be his mother remarrying, and Hamlet not being able to confess his true feelings about King Claudius being his new father. In the first four acts, Hamlet goes on about his life being miserable and in some kind of melancholy mood. He can’t find a way to deal with it, so he keeps all of his negative feelings to himself. This “depressed” funk he is in interferes with his will to act upon things that

Hamlet is one of Shakespeare’s many tragedies. Common themes in these works by Shakespeare are murder and deceit. Hamlet is full of each. The protagonist of the play, Prince Hamlet, is a young man whose father was murdered two months before the beginning of the story. Early on in the play Hamlet is approached by the ghost of his father. He explains to Hamlet that his brother, Claudius, murdered him. Before he returns to purgatory, he asks that Hamlet take revenge on Claudius, who, since the murder has taken the Crown of Denmark and taken Hamlet’s mother as a wife. Hamlet then makes a vow that he will avenge his father, but as the play progresses Hamlet passes up multiple opportunities to kill Claudius. This begs the question, Why does

Hamlet really wanted the revenge on Claudius but was really on the fence of what to actually do to follow through with then plan. Claudius was brave to feel so free, as Hamlet had opportunities to take advantage of him and had plenty of hate towards him for more than one reason. The action Hamlet may want and outcome of it, may be completely different as to what his father would do or like him to do.

Hamlet doesn’t think it would be just to kill Claudius now because it would be basically sending him “to heaven” which Hamlet does not want. He wants to take what he perceives as the nobler path of catching Claudius in sin and send him to eternal damnation, where Hamlet’s father supposedly roams. To what seems like noble justice to Hamlet leads him to continuously postpone his revenge. Hamlet is not interested in making himself king, rather he is more interested in killing Claudius the, truthfully, unchristian way. Hamlet does not want Claudius to repent and absolve of his sins. Although Hamlet calls Claudius a “villain”, it makes the reader ponder if the executioner of the villain is always the “hero”. So far in the play, Hamlet does not show any characteristics of a traditional hero as he broods and shows temper tantrums. Using his false sense of righteousness, Hamlet waits for the right chance to exact his noble “revenge”.

Hamlet delayed seeking his revenge many times until the very end. He is first delayed because he doesn't know if he can trust the word of the ghost. Later after the play he had the chance to kill King Claudius while he was vulnerable but decided not to. Also he was religious and may have believed taking his revenge would send him to hell. These three points have a big part in why Hamlet procrastinated in taking his revenge.

Shakespeare's Hamlet is truly a great play to analyze. It is also unique in that a play based on revenge we don't see any action until the end. Hamlet has immediate suspicion and proof of his fathers murder and does not act. This poses the question, why does it take so long for Hamlet to kill Claudius? Hamlet's apparent indecisiveness to act is due to his constant habit of over thinking in addition to several conscious and subconscious distractions.

In Shakespeare’s play, Hamlet, Hamlet, a studious young man and Prince of Denmark, struggles to face the death of his father and the task to kill his father’s murderer, Claudius. He was once known as a charming, smart young man before his father’s death. However, Hamlet experiences depression and anger at the world, causing him to look outwardly on society but failing to look inwardly on himself. The death of his father and the task for vengeance leads him to question whether or not he should follow through in killing Claudius. He becomes a man of thought rather than a man of action. In addition, the delay of King Claudius’ murder leads the readers to believe that he wishes not to kill him; he

"To be or not to be, that is the question". This is probably one of the most famous soliloquies. You could say that Hamlet sounds like a broken record with the whole suicide thing. However, he just might be moving on here. After all, instead of obsessing about whether or not to kill himself, he is exploring the reason why people in general don't commit suicide. When it comes down to it, he is talking about you, us and everyone else out there. Life is worth because we are experience every single moment. And there are some special moment that define who we are.

Hamlet is an extremely intelligent character, therefore, he thinks each decision through completely before acting on it. This is shown, for instance, when Hamlet didn’t kill Claudius in the chapel, even though he had every perfect opportunity to. Hamlet considered what would happen if he kill Claudius while he confessed his sins, and determined he didn’t want his soul to go to heaven while his father’s sat in purgatory. He also created the “play within a play” to prove Claudius guilty. Hamlet didn’t go after Claudius until he was positive that he was guilty of his father’s death.

Unlike Hamlet though, Claudius thinks about his actions because he wants to make sure he makes a decision that will be the best for him. He knows if he just kills Hamlet the people of the kingdom will turn on him because of the love they all share for Hamlet. He sends in Rozencrantz and Guildenstern to find out what is wrong with Hamlet so that Claudius can decide what to do from there. His decision to send Rozencrantz and Guildenstern to spy on and talk to Hamlet is illustrated when he says, “So by your companies/To draw him on pleasures, and to gather/So much as from occasion you may glean/[Whether aught to us unknown afflicts him thus]/That opened lies within our remedy” (II.II.14-18). Claudius and Hamlet are both extremely sly and cunning and posses similarities with their ability to act, but this could merely be because of the education they both have which has brought them common sense and the ability to think before acting. One major difference of their ability to act is when Hamlet acts on impulse and kills Claudius’ advisor Polonius. Hamlet unlike Claudius has so much anger built up inside of him because of his father’s death and it kept building and building until he finally let it out when talking to his mother about Claudius. He heard a noise from behind a curtain which was Polonius’, and without thinking Hamlet stabs him releasing some of his pent up aggression. Hamlet shows the anger he has within when he says, “A bloody deed-almost as

Claudius is only acting out what Hamlet secretly wants to do, take his father’s place as his mother’s lover. This would explain why Hamlet puts off the revenge instead of carrying it out immediately after seeing his father’s ghost. It would also provide a reason for Hamlet’s later insanity.

To begin, Hamlet has a big challenge with killing the king (his dad). He wants to do what his dead father says because Hamlet father wants revenge. One problem that he has it that Hamlet is not a killer. In the beginning he put things off he didn't commit to it he finally step up his game and did something. He reacted what

If the revenge plot is considered as a game of chess between Hamlet and King Claudius, we can conclude that King Claudius is the more favourable position in this scene. Because Hamlet’s uncle is the King, he automatically already has the trust and support of his citizens. With this status, Claudius also has the luxury of obtaining any resources he may require to protect himself and/or eliminate Hamlet if he needed to. Hamlet is not in the more favourable position because people are already suspicious of his intentions to kill King Claudius. Hamlet’s play ended in Hamlet appearing guilty upon the possibility of killing his uncle, so the audience was automatically skeptical of Hamlet and his motives. Since no proof exists that King Claudius murdered King Hamlet, a confession is the only way that Hamlet can prove his uncle is guilty. Hamlet is in a complicated situation when it comes to determining how exactly how he will put his plan into action, and must be very careful when plotting his next move as King Claudius has the upper hand of knowing what Hamlet is up to.