believes in heaven and hell and whose thinks that any man who commits murder must face his punishment. Also, according to Shakespeare, a Ghost is "a spirit damn’d" which would lead to the idea that Hamlet should not take vengeance into his own hands. When Hamlet does accept what the Ghost tells him to be true, he thinks about it long time, expecting to do the deed immediately, but instead drags it on until the end of the play. In stress and in powerful emotion, Hamlet makes a positive identification of the Ghost as "King, father; royal Dane."(I.iv.45) Hamlet's hasty decision to accept the Ghost as his father, give him second doubts later on in the play. Hamlet's fascination with death played a large role in the delay of the death of Claudius. In act I scene ii, when Hamlet is alone he expresses his innermost thoughts and were it not against God's law, he would commit suicide, because according to him, his world has become "weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable." Not only because he has just lost a king and a father, but because his mother has just married a man much inferior to King Hamlet, who got married less than two months after his death. In Hamlet's famous soliloquy he discusses how death would be the brave thing to do; “To die; to sleep;- To sleep? Perchance to dream!. . .”(III.i.64-68) Yet at the same time Hamlet makes it sound almost like a fear; “But that the dread of something after death, The undiscover'd country from whose bourn No traveller returns, puzzles the will . . ..(III.i.78-80)” Then again if Hamlet has talked to the Ghost who has told him of the necessary purgatory why does he question it? Or maybe, if Hamlet believes that death is an escape, he does not want to let Claudius escape, instead forcing him to live with himself and what he has done. Forcing Claudius to live with his conscience bothering him. Hamlet's fear does not play a that important of a role in the procrastina...
