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Over all, we are able to see Shakespear's great tragedy in action. We experience the same feelings as the characters do, and thus become involved. Through Hamlet's complex personality, it is possible to see how he functions in carrying out and maintaining the plot and story line. Although he seems a bit dramatic, he makes this tragedy possible.
Hamlet's Character .
In Hamlet's speech in act three, scene three Hamlet discloses many.
facets of his character to us, aspects that we have thus far only been able.
to see as fragments in other speeches. He reveals himself to be an.
over-analytical man who often procrastinates. He also shows that he does.
not really want to kill Claudius but feels compelled to out of a sense of.
duty to his dead father. Hamlet demonstrates his over-analytical nature in.
line seventy-three 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. In line eighty he says "Why, this is.
hire and salary, not revenge". He knows that he must kill Claudius but he.
postpones it. This almost suggests that Hamlet does not really want to.
kill Claudius, but feels obligated to do so. Through his over-analysis he.
seems to be almost talking himself out of doing his job.
One of Hamlet's most renown traits is his over-analysis of.
conversational topics and situations in which action must be taken. An.
example of his over-analytical nature is apparent in his speech in act one,.
scene four, line 13. He begins his speech quite normally, replying with a.
simple answer to Horatio's inquiry but then his thoughts begin to wander.
and he starts to analyze and philosophize about topics unrelated to.
Horatio's question.
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