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Title: Cause Of Hamlets Delay
Words: 1287
The Cause of Hamlet's Delay
Hamlet is a magnificent play that is complicated and intricate. Ever since it first appeared readers, critics, spectators, actors, directors, and producers have been puzzling about the play, trying to solve it's riddles, to figure out it's problems, to understand it's ambiguities, and to fathom it's greatness. One of the central questions of the play is; why doesn't Hamlet kill Claudius immediately upon hearing the ghost's accusation? Lawrence Oliver answered this question like so; "this is a tragedy about a man who could not make up his mind." Oliver believed that Hamlet's delay of avenging his uncle was due to his problem of thinking too much. This does seem to be the main problem since throughout the play Hamlet's body and mind constantly question o ...
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