Hamlet Hamlet s inability to avenge his father s death
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Hamlet
(Hamlet's inability to avenge his father's death)
In William Shakespeare's, Hamlet, one question remains unanswered: "To be, or not to be, that is the question". Should Hamlet live or should he die, or rather should he take revenge for his father's death? These are all issues that Hamlet battles within himself. Hamlet's reason for his struggle to decide and take action against Claudius can be based on many factors. Through his speeches and soliloquies, Hamlet is an intelligent young man. Hamlet's need to prove everything is true, draws his time of action farther and farther away. Hamlet doubts himself and whether or not the action that he wants to take is the right and just one. The visit that Hamlet receives from his dead father makes the reader think the time to go and seek revenge is here. This is not what happens, though. Hamlet does seem eager to try to take the life of Claudius in the name of his father, but before he can do so he questions himself: "What if that was not my father, but an evil apparition sending me on the wrong path?..