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Hamlet

 

Now to my word: It is "Adieu, adieu! Remember me." I have sworn it" (I.v.111-113). 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 himself for the inaction he takes on the revenge for his father's death. Now, weather it be bestial oblivion, or some craven 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 want to kill him there and send his uncle to heaven. "Now might I do it pat, now "a is a-praying; and now I'll do't. And so "a goes to heaven, and so am I revenged. That would be scanned: A villain kills my father, and for that, I, his sole son, do this same villain send to heaven" (III.iii.73-78). "When he is drunk, asleep, or in his rage, Or in the incestuous pleasure of his bed, At game a-swearing, or about some act that has no relish of salvation in "t-- Then trip him, that his heals may kick at heaven, And that his soul may be as damned and black As hell, whereto it goes" (III.iii.89-95). .
             From lines 73 to 78, Hamlet is prepared to kill Claudius, yet he ponders his future actions, and decides to postpone his revenge. He does so due to the fact that by killing him while he is praying, Claudius will in turn go to heaven. This is not what Hamlet wants, nor what anyone would want. From lines 89 to 95, Hamlet decides he will enact his revenge during the time in which Claudius engages himself in a sinful act, from which has no chance for salvation, whereby he will go to hell upon death. .
             During Hamlet's soliloquy in Act IV, Hamlet hears of the actions of Fortinbras.


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