Hamlet Blog 4

Prompt: How do you explain Hamlet's inability to act in avenging his father's death?

Hamlet's inability to act in avenging his own father's death can be explained with his hesitation and his seemingly perfectionist character. Based off of what we, as readers, already know about Hamlet, we can assume that Hamlet was raised in a moral matter where revenge and murder were not brought up as something morally right to do. Hamlet's uncontrolled emotions push him to the verge of his own psychological state, that these emotions overtake him. Since Hamlet does not have much experience with the current flow of emotions that he is feeling, his revenge takes turns and causes (at times) hesitation and actions that are not fully thought through. Hamlet's perfectionist qualities are seen throughout his planning to kill King Claudius because he wants to make sure that while he is avenging his father's death it is done perfectly and without error. It goes without saying that Hamlet's inability to act in avenging his father because of how he wanted to perfect it and how hesitant Hamlet's character was to pursue his thoughts.