Why Does Hamlet Procrastinate?

Why Does Hamlet Procrastinate?

In a situation where ones mother turns her back on you and your emotional state of mind after your father had just died and expects you to put up with the fact she has married your fathers brother within 3 months of his death…from a drama perspective you would be expected by a paying audience that you would go all straight away guns blazing in order to exact swift brutal revenge on the people who have, in a metaphoric sense, dropped a whole load faeces on you and your emotion.

This is the situation that Hamlet is faced with in William Shakespeare’s iconic play appropriately titled “Hamlet”. A question that has arose from the play, start to finish is why does hamlet delay the inevitable blood splattered vengeance on his Uncle. There are of course 2 main ways to look at it.

Hamlet is a very emotionally unstable person; his drift into madness is shown as a growing theme