Hamlet's Flaws

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How does the average person act when it comes to a time of great distraught? Certainly not like Hamlet. Hamlet in the story displays many ways in how he is in distraught after he learn about the death of his father. Hamlet becomes a victim of fate in the events that follow in his life after the ghost of his dead father appears. At the same time he's a tragically flawed hero who can't always bring himself to perform the actions he wants to and backing out by rethinking his scenario. Hamlet is also a renaissance man by how he displays himself in being a good and well rounded person in times of when everything around him turns to the worst. Most of all though Hamlet is a slave of his passions, it's difficult to step away from his everyday life …show more content…

Hamlet can be described as the tragically flawed hero that couldn’t have courage inside of him sometimes to bring himself to perform the action he really wanted to. Hamlet does commit acts of violence that were not necessary, but every hero has their flaws. So the reason he does this is to give Claudius what he deserves. In a sense that Hamlet cannot step away from who he is, he always thinks about what more he could do to have bettered himself. What he lacks in action though he gains in knowledge of the leading situation. But with Hamlet’s delay in his revenge he learns more and more of the truth that than he did before, but he also had to prove that Polonius killed his father instead of believing a mysterious ghost. Since in the same time that all of this is occurring Hamlet does care about himself, to avoid any possible damnation, he continues to wait on his revengeful plan (Beauregard). Throughout the course of what Hamlet tries to do, he still sticks to what he knows will be the right action in the end, even though he doesn’t take action a lot of the time when he has the chance. Hamlet can speak what he wants to, but he’s not going to speak his mind because he trusts no one besides Horatio. “I will speak daggers to her heart, but use none” (III.ii,366). Even though Hamlet has a lot of talk, he could never bring himself to use a dagger on

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