Indecisiveness by Brenna Stringfellow

The problem I see with Hamlet is that he just can’t make up his mind. I feel he is just prolonging killing his uncle. Yes he wants revenge and is angry, but he has yet to try and kill his uncle. Instead he puts on this play to observe his uncle to see if he is guilty. What is up with that?

He is indecisive on what he wants to do about Ophelia, well according to her and her father he doesn’t. In the earlier Acts, he doesn’t know if the ghost is real. I get that, I wouldn’t just believe a ghost myself, but he still is unsure. Then of course the famous, “To be or not to be,” speech. It just shows how he’s so indecisive and how he constantly battles with making his own decisions. 

I say he is so indecisive because for a prince, he just doesn’t know what he wants to do, and eventually the only thing that gets him to do anything is his anger. He became a light switch and flipped from mourning to avenging. He was very harsh to Ophelia at the start of Act 3, but once it was confirmed his uncle did kill his father he became absolutely livid. He kills Polonius, and is just outright rude to his mother. 

It may not be as bad right now, but I feel the more I read along the worse he is just going to get and he won’t be better until he kills his uncle. 

I commented on Anna Grace and Gray’s post.