How Does Hamlet Kill Claudius

In the entire play of Hamlet, written by William Shakespeare, Hamlet is contemplating about his role of taking revenge on Claudius, his uncle, for his father’s death. Hamlet, the main protagonist, was told by the ghost of his father to kill Claudius. However, throughout the play, Hamlet finds reason to delay the killing. There has been bad timing such as Claudius trying to get him sent off to England and accidentally killing Polonius. Even though Hamlet knows that he should get revenge for his father, Hamlet delays killing Claudius because his inability to trust the ghost and his conscience. As the audience watches Hamlet going through a traumatic experience with losing his father and then learning the truth of his father’s death, it is easier to understand what difficulties Hamlet is going through during this time. Hamlet’s inability

He thinks to himself about “the imminent death of twenty thousand men/ that for a fantasy and trick of fame/ go to their graves like beds, fight for a plot” (4.4.63-65). He realizes that people in war are willing to die for a piece of land while he is unwilling to do anything about his father’s death. Even when Hamlet has a motive for killing Claudius, he does nothing about it. Claudius has corrupted his mother and killed his father. After finding out that Claudius did in fact poison his father, he continues to find reasons not to carry out his duty. He constantly finds reasons to not kill Claudius and when Ophelia, who is portrayed as innocent, obedient, and the love of Hamlet, commits suicide, he loses all hope in humanity and kills Claudius. He realizes that if Ophelia could not withstand all the evils of the world, then something had to be done. Claudius, an evil king who killed his own brother and took his brother’s wife for himself, needed to be