believes Claudius will not go to heaven. One must also consider the fact that Hamlet cannot simply disregard his morals and values. Thus conscience does make cowards of us all. ( III I, 84) Hamlet understands that conscience, or what society has taught individuals to believe, is an impediment. To go against what one holds as true and right is to go against one self. Hamlet realizes that his conscience prevents him from taking any significant action, therefor by the end of the play he convinces himself that he must act. A thought which, quartered, hath but one part wisdom And ever three parts coward O from this time froth my thoughts be bloody or be nothing worth!( IV iv, 43-44, 66-67) Hamlet finds extremely difficult to decide what is the right thing to do. The most honorable thing to do is to kill Claudius, but that is both treason and an unforgivable sin. Hamlet has also a strange relationship with his mother. He does not know how to treat his mother, or even to that matter Ophelia. He truly loves both women, but cannot trust either of them. Why wouldst thy be a breeder of sinners? I am indifferent honest, but yet I could accuse me of such things that it were better my mother had not borne me: Or, if thou wit needs marry, marry a fool, for wise men know well enough what monsters you make of them. (III I, 122-125, 139-141) Hamlet is constantly affronted with situations that do not provide a right answer. All his actions are extremely important and the fear of failure, or making a wrong decision, leads him to an eternal reasoning process, which leads him to nothing. The complexities of the events that take place through out the play do not always provide Hamlet with one clear decision. Hamlet discovered the means by which his father died by the apparition of a ghost, a most mysterious and unusual way. This could have been an extrapolation of his disturbed mind or a fabrication. It would be impossible to justify the murder of Claud...
