Identify Hamlet's Fatal Flaw And How It Affects Him Throughout The Play

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1. Introduction: William Shakespeare is a renowned writer who presented his major characters in a unique way to attract many audiences.  Most of his plays have tragic endings. In his plays, his characters are tragic heroes because their downfall is caused by flaws in their personality.

Thesis: Hamlet’s fatal flaws prevent them from seeing the truth. Shakespeare presents several fatal flaws throughout his plays in the form of a lapse in judgment that results in the character's demise as in the case of Hamlet.

1. Body Paragraph I: At the beginning of the play, Hamlet is portrayed as an intelligent and a rational thinker, Hamlet had a great mind. His greatness is presented in most of his actions as a ruler. He was gifted with a great mind; he believes that people’s reasoning should be fair; however, the death of his father reveals some of his flaws.  One of Hamlet fatal flaws evident throughout the play is his inability to make the right decision after his father's death. His inability to make the right decision is what becomes Hamlet a fatal flaw in the play. Throughout the play, Hamlet keeps on procrastinates his plan to kill Claudius, he puts on the mousetrap and also delays killing Claudius when he is praying.

Body Paragraph II.  Hamlet’s fatal flaws is evident after the death of his father, the ghost of his father appears to him and challenge him to take revenge, despite being an intelligent thinker, Hamlet is convinced by the ghost that Claudius killed his father when he states that but know, thou noble youth, The serpent that did sting thy Fathers life, Now wears his crown (Shakespeare 1.5.45-47.  Hamlet ponders whether to take the revenge or not. One of his fatal flaws becomes evident in the play when he uses that famous phrase “to be or not to be "(Shakespeare (3.1.56-88). This is one of the examples that shows how Hamlet was pondering whether to avenge his father's death or not. Body Paragraph III: Hamlet procrastination is seen when he delays in informing anyone about his plans to revenge his father's death.  This explains some of his odd behavior seen in the progressive scenes of the play because he was not sure of what to do.  Although Hamlet informs the ghost that he wi...