aracter does not have a tragic flaw. Hamlet is making an excuse for any possible flaws that might arise in the play.Shakespeare shows us that Hamlet retains his the ability to think lucidly and in depth with his monologue (3.1.56-89). Anytime that Hamlet has to act on something, such as in the church when he has the opportunity to kill Claudius while he was praying, He stops to think before he acts. "There is no clear evidence of wrong doing until Claudius confesses his sins to God, his nephew, and the theater at large" (Scott-Hopkins 1). The thinking eventually leads him to doubt, which leads him to inaction. He takes the time to reason and reasons himself out of acting. Hamlet speaks of his inability to takeaction, his tragic flaw:"Thus conscience does make cowards of us all; And thus the native hue of resolution Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought, And enterprises of great pitch and moment With this regard their currents turn awry And lose the name of action." (3.1.83-88) Hamlet knows of his own flaw and knows how it has affected his relationship with Ophelia also. Another example of when Hamlet cannot act on impulse is in act 3,2 when he puts on the play to try to show proof to the rest of the court that Claudius murdered his father. He could not act on the ghost's words alone. It would have been easier if Hamlet did not alert Claudius to the fact that he knows who murdered his father. Hamlet acts without rational thought in a couple of scenes throughout the play. In Act 1, 4 Hamlet threatens Horatio and Marcellus to let him go so he can follow the ghost. He does not have a rational thought about it. He simply follows the ghost even with Horatio trying to talk him out of it. Another example to support Hamlet's irrational acts is when he is in the Queen's chambers in Act 3, 4 when he stabs Polonius through the arras, without knowledge of who it is. As soon as he hears someone speak, "What, ho! help!" (3.4.22), Hamlet, wit...
