The reasons for Hamlet’s delay in taking revenge are mainly internal. Do you agree? Give reasons for your answer.

The reasons for Hamlet’s delay in taking revenge are mainly internal. Do you agree? Give reasons for your answer.

When the ghost was about to reveal the dark truths to his son, Hamlet almost impatiently said:                      “Haste me to know’t that I with wings as swift

      As meditation or the thoughts of love,

     May sweep to my revenge”

But in actuality the prince of Denmark dose not fulfill his promise. He lets months go by , and whenever he slips into a soliloquy he criticizes himself vehemently for the delay he is making. Hamlet himself realizes that he is guilty of delay.                               

                       “How all occasions do inform against me,

                       And spur my dull revenge!”

Even the ghost was impatient with the son’s delay. In the closet scene the ghost reprimand the avenger in the following way:

                        “Do not forget; this visitation

                         Is but to whet thy almost blunted purpose”

Any delay has two reasons which may be called internal and external. A person may make delay in doing something due to psychological problems. In this case the delay is due to internal factors. But the case may be so that a parson is deterred to do something by forces beyond his control. In this case we have the external factors contributing to the delay. As far as the question of Hamlet’s delay is concerned, critics even today are not unanimous about the possible reasons for his delay......................

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