Hamlet's objective to sustain his father's request becomes questionable with his delay in the murder of Claudius. After Hamlet realizes that Claudius is guilty, he comes across him in the chapel. He is given the perfect opportunity to finally kill Claudius, but turns it down because he does not want to kill Claudius while he is praying. Hamlet feels that if he has murdered Claudius during prayer it would dishonour his father by sending him to Heaven. Instead Hamlet plans on killing him when he catches him in the act of doing something horrific, ensuring he goes to Hell. "And now I'll do't: and so he goes to heaven: And so I am revenged. That would be scann'd: A villain kills my father; and, for that, I, his sole son, do this same villain send To heaven" (Act III iii 75 - 80). After the ghost spoke with Hamlet about his mother running off with Claudius, he specifically said that this is not his mother's fault and that he should not be upset or blame her for anything. Before Hamlet gets a chance to finally speak to Gertrude in her bedroom, he remembers his father's words wisely. "Let me be cruel, not unnatural: I will speak daggers to her, but use none; My tongue and soul in this be hypocrites How in my words soever she be shent, To give them seals never, my soul, consent!" (Act III ii 386- 340). These examples of virtue can be tied with how Hamlet has chosen to go through physical and mental adjustments.
Over the course of the play, Hamlet undergoes changes in how he judges himself and how he behaves around other people. After Hamlet met the ghost, he could not enjoy life anymore because he was not sure if seeking vengeance was right. He proves this by treating everyone that wronged him with a reckless manner, including his friends and family. "I'll wipe away all trivial fond records, All saws of books, all forms, all pressures past, That youth and observation copied there" (Act I v 100 - 103).
