Hamlet

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Hamlet’s self destruction is due to his reluctance to accept the role that he has been cast in. His reluctance leads to his delay which is the reason for his self destruction. His delay causes him to over think situations. He delays by spending his time pondering about situations and making plans that do not solve the heart of the problem; until the very end.
Hamlet’s fatal flaw is his conscience; he needs to question everything, and because of that, he delays. It is learn right away of how Hamlet feels towards the task given to him by his father from his words “The time is out of joint: O cursed spite, /That ever I was born to set it right!-“(I.v.190-191). From his words it is seen that he questions why he himself must carry this burden to clean Denmark; all because of Claudius’s dirty deed. He is reluctant, but he knows he must do this task sooner or later, and readers know he chooses the latter.
Overanalyzing can make a simple task seem much more difficult than it has to be. Hamlet was given the task to take revenge for his father and to leave his mother out of the revenge. Al...

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