Hamlet

Hamlet

I would have to say that Hamlet is the biggest procrastinator I have ever known but also never met. In the beginning of the play he comes home from college to find out that his father is dead . He is told the fake story of how a poisonous snake bit and killed his father. Now if I was Hamlet I would have maybe sensed something was wrong but I probably wouldn’t think anything on it because he is his uncle why would he lie? But when Horatio came to him and told him of a ghost that looked like his dead father kept reappearing I would have had to think something was going on. So Hamlet goes and speaks to the ghost and it tells him that “the serpent that did sting thy father’s life now wears his crown”. This meant that the person who killed him was Claudius. Now if an apparition came to me telling me that my uncle killed my father that would be more than enough evidence for me to go after my uncle. I probably would take it as a message from heaven trying to expose Claudius’ crime.

But Hamlet didn’t jump to any conclusions he wanted some hard evidence he could take to court. I can agree with him on this to an extent because you can’t get revenge on someone and not have proof. Because if he outright killed Claudius he would have been arrested and put to death immediately. And if he says a ghost told him that Claudius killed his father people might have thought Hamlet as gone mad. But if he also uses Horatio and Marcellus as witnesses he might have a better chance of people believing him. For example every court case today you have people that witnessed the crime. And say if three people witnessed a murder. Now all three people could be lying but they will have a better chance of getting the criminal put in jail because there are more of them to back the story up. And if Hamlet uses them two people most likely will be more willing to believe them or they all would look crazy.

But instead of doing this he tries out his antic disposition. To me this idea wasn’t one of his best because it didn’t work. Him acting crazy had no effect on Claudius. I really didn’t see where he was going with this plan at all. But his one good idea was adding the extra scene in the “Murder of Gonzago”. “The play’s the thing where I’ll catch the conscience of the king”. So at the play he watched the actors or players re-enact the murder of his father by Claudius and viewed his expressions to it. As