One of his tragic flaw is, he is an immense procrastinator. Hamlet also wants to be king more than anything ever and would do anything in his power to become king. He is absolutely miserable because his father died and his mother rushes off and married his uncle, Claudius and he takes the throne. You see Hamlet’s tragic flaws, procrastination and indecisive, quite a bit throughout the play. After the ghost comes to Hamlet and tells him that Claudius killed his father, Hamlet continues to go back and forth trying to decide whether he should try and get revenge on Claudius or not. The ghost said “the serpent that did sting thy father’s life now wears his crown.” Hamlet decided to procrastinate getting revenge on Claudius because he is thinking maybe the ghost was just deceiving him. …show more content…
Of course, Uncle Claudius doesn’t take the play very well. Afterwards, Hamlet got the perfect to kill Claudius, but he hesitates again because Claudius is praying and he ultimately doesn’t take the chance.1 Claudius knows Hamlet is onto something. He gets Hamlet right where he wants him when Hamlet kills Polonius for spying him and his mother. Claudius tries to get Hamlet sent to England with his “friends” Rosenkrantz and Guildenstern to get him executed. Instead, Hamlet gets Rosenkrantz and Guildenstern killed. Meanwhile, Ophelia is completely beside herself after her father’s death and Hamlet going insane, that she drowns herself. Still Hamlet can’t make up his mind and he doesn’t go after Claudius. Hamlet’s girlfriend, his girlfriend’s father, and his two old friends are dead because of the delay on killing Claudius. Instead of doing anything, Hamlet stands around in the churchyard contemplating life and death. After the funeral of Ophelia, he again considers killing Claudius.2 Instead he agrees to a sword fight with Ophelia’s brother,