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A 5 page paper analyzing why it takes Hamlet so long to avenge his father's death; it also considers the ethical nature of this vendetta as seen through the lens of Hamlet's own society. The paper concludes that Hamlet was suffering from a profound emotional depression, and thus had great difficulty convincing himself to act; thus, the most unethical aspect of the revenge request was asking Hamlet to do it at all. Bibliography lists four sources.
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File: D0_Hamrev.rtf
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of his murdered father himself appeared to Hamlet in Act I, and implored his son to avenge him. At that time, Hamlet promised to comply, and seemed to have every
intention of following through, but it takes him literally the entire play to pull it off. Why? Was he too cowardly, too moral, too fastidious? This paper will analyze the
nature of Hamlets problem, and then determine whether carrying out this vendetta of revenge was ethical or not. James Rouff notes that Goethe felt Hamlet to be a "sensitive plant",
too delicate for such savagery; Coleridge argued that Hamlet is too intellectual to be a man of action (Rouff, 187). Goethes theory can be immediately refuted by even a cursory
reading of the text of the play itself. A.C. Bradley, for example, counters it with this argument: "This shrinking, flowerlike youth -- how could he possibly have done what we
see Hamlet do? What likeness to him is there in the Hamlet who . . . scarcely once speaks to the King without an insult, or to Polonius without a
gibe; the Hamlet who storms at Ophelia and speaks daggers to his mother; the Hamlet who, hearing a cry behind the arras, whips out his sword in an instant and
runs the eavesdropper through; the Hamlet who sends his school-fellows [Rosencrantz and Guildenstern] to their death and never troubles his head about them more; the Hamlet who is the first
man to board a pirate ship, and who fights with Laertes in a grave; the Hamlet . . . who, as the truth breaks upon him, rushes
on the King, drives his foil right through his body, then seizes the poisoned cup and forces it violently between the wretched mans lips, and in the throes of death
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