... 113). His father's memorable words, "Remember me, moved Hamlet and he swore to avenge his death. Throughout the play, Hamlet procrastinates over the killing of Claudius for two main reasons. The first being indecision and the second, he sometimes does not seem to have the right timing. Throughout the play, Hamlet denounces ... scruple of thinking too precisely on the event. Hamlet is flustered by his inability to enact the revenge, and his ability to only anticipate the action of revenge. Hamlet finally gets an opportunity to enact revenge on Claudius, but he was praying and he didn't wan...

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... scann'd. (3,3,73-5) Hamlet demonstrates his over-analytical nature in line seventy-five of the speech when he says "That would be scann'd:" meaning that he should examine his situation more closely. Instead of simply killing Claudius while he had the chance he over-analyses and eventually decides to postpone Claudius' murder, missing the best chance he will obtain in the play. Hamlet is ... also a procrastinator and this is demonstrated many times in the play: "Why, this is hire and salary, not revenge". (3,3,79) He knows that he must kill Claudius but he postpones it. What Hamlet has l...

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