he dies she lusts after Claudius: “But two months dead – nay, not so much, not two…Why, she *would* hang on him as if increase of appetite had grown by what it fed on. And yet , within a month (let me not think on ‘t; frailty, thy name is woman!)…(O God, a beast that wants discourse of reason would have mourned longer!), married with my uncle…” (I.ii.142, 147-150, 155-156).Gertrude trusts King Claudius and because of her trust her fate becomes death:King: Gertrude, do not drink.Queen: I will, my lord; I pray you pardon me. [She drinks]King: [aside] It is the poisoned cup. It is too late…Queen: No, no, the drink, the drink! O, my dear Hamlet! The drink, the drink! I am poisoned. Hamlet’s passivity is his flaw. The deceased King Hamlet’s ghost tells Hamlet to get revenge: “Revenge his foul and most unnatural murder” (I.v.31) and by telling him this he misses the opportunity to kill King Claudius: “Now might I do it *pat*, now he is a-praying, and now I’ll do ‘t. And so he goes to heaven, and so am I *revenged*…A villain kills my father, and for that, I, his sole son, do this same villain send to heaven. Why, this is [something Claudius should pay me for], not revenge. He took my father grossly, full of bread, with all his crimes broad blown, as flush as May; and how his audit stands who knows save heaven. But in our circumstance and course of thought ‘tis heavy with him. And am I then revenged to take him in the purging of his soul, when he is fit and seasoned for his passage? No…When he is drunk asleep, or in his rage, or in th’ incestuous pleasure of his bed…then trip him, that his heels may kick at heaven, and that his soul may be as damned and black as hell, whereto it goes” (III.iv.77-100).His fate is then death in a sword match with Laertes:Laertes: It is here, Hamlet. Thou art slain. No med’cine in th...
