Investigation of Hamlet's Tragic Flaw that Led to his Demise

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Investigation of Hamlet's Tragic Flaw that Led to his Demise

William Shakespeare's tragedy plays have fascinated people from the

time of the renaissance to present modern times. All his tragedy plays

are five acts long, and the climax of the play occurs in the third

act. In each and every tragedy play there is a tragic hero who bears a

tragic flaw. Every tragic hero usually possesses valor characteristics

such as bravery, honesty, intelligence, and so on. In the

Shakespearean tragedy Hamlet the tragic hero is Hamlet. He is an

emotionally scarred young man trying to avenge the murder of his

father, the king. The ghost of Hamlet's father appears to Hamlet,

telling him that he was murdered by his brother, Claudius, who has now

become the king. Claudius has also married Gertrude, the old king's

widow and Hamlet's mother. Hamlet's tragic flaw is caused by his

intelligence, intellect, and over excessive contemplation of his

actions entirely too much, that it becomes too good for his own good.

In the end his flaw of procrastination resonates clearly, after he

meets his demise.

Given the situation that Hamlet finds himself in. He controls his

grief and bitterness, when in the eye of the public. However, when in

private he lashes out in a passionate soliloquy-revealing that his

heart is nearly broken from his mother's hasty remarriage to his

uncle. In this emotional pain, Hamlet contemplates suicide to resolve

the pain that he must suffer while on this earth. But, he realizes

that his religion forbids suicide- "His canon 'gainst self-slaughter.

O God! O God!" (I, ii, 132). Here, Hamlet double thinks his action of

committing suicide, and ...

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