ake, With a bare bodkin? (142,144) Hamlets character has truly changed at this point. He is no longer a man pretending to be mad -he is a man who is truly mad. In the forth soliloquy hamlet wonders if he is fulfilling his purpose in his life, which he now believes is to avenge his fathers murder. He is angry with himself for waiting so long to exact his revenge and fulfill his purpose. How all occasions do inform against me, And spur my dull revenge! (222) At this point Hamlet is felling ashamed of his procrastination and wonders if he is indeed a great man. When honours at stake. How stained I then, That have a father killed, a mother stained, And let all sleep. (222) His psyche by this time is truly damaged. He is now just a shell of a man with one purpose, revenge! Oh, from now on my thoughts must concentrate on vengeance, or theyre unworthy! (224)Hamlet is a tragic hero when looked upon from an Aristotelian point of view. First, he was a great man of noble birth and he had a lot of responsibility in his kingdom. He is looked up to by most for leadership and guidance. Hamlet has the fatal tendency to only concentrate on only one thing, this thing was to revenge his fathers death by killing Claudius. This tendency leads him to his downfall along with his on major character flaw. This flaw is that Hamlet is a serial procrastinator. One example of this procrastination is that he had many chance to murder Claudius but he did not, he always seemed to find some excuse not to do it. I wonder if he killed Claudius the first chance he got, would he have lived a long and happy life as the King along with his Queen, instead of dying by the shear will of Claudius.Works CitedShakespeare, William. Hamlet Shakespeare made easy. 1986...
