Hamlets Procrastination :: William Shakespeare Hamlet

To be or not to be, is crossroadss most famous quotation. Hamlet is the booster amplifier of Shakespeares. His father, nance Hamlet, killed by his own brother, Claudius, then Claudius marries king Hamlets wife, Gertrude, and won the kingship. Prince Hamlet who suffers from Oedipal Complex, felling in love with his own mother and considering father as a rival to his love, cant make his mind whether to kill his uncle and take his fathers revenge or not. And ask this question from himself, because in one hand he knows that if he kill Claudius, his companions will kill him, in other hand his fathers tracing appears to him and ask him to kill Claudius. He was in a dilemma. Hamlets tragic shift is his procrastination, Hamlet procrastinated only because of his fear of intimacy with his mother, he knows that Claudius was the only psyche separating him and Gertrude. Now this question would come to our mind that why does Shakespeare give so much prominence to the delay without clearly pre senting the reason for it? James k. Lowers in his Tragic Heroes argues that Shakespeares tragedy is a work of surpassing interest and genius, and the tragic hero is universally attractive and fascinating (12). We must keep ii things in mind. First, Shakespeare makes it clear that Hamlet is acutely aware of a delay. Second, Shakespeare in any case makes it clear that Hamlet himself is not sure why he delays. At the end of the eighteenth century, Goethe in Wilhelm Meisters Apprenticeship proposed that Shakespeare means, in Hamlet, to represent the effects of a great action laid upon a soul unfit for the surgical process of it(152). Hamlet is not sure about ghost?s says, he wants to reveal the fact, and prove his fathers innocence, because his ghost said to him that Claudius kill him to gain king ship and his queen. From the religious point of view we can consider him as a religious man, we can disgust that he put away taking revenge, because in Christianity taking revenge is fo rbidden. He put come to killing his uncle 3times as Jesus was put off 3times for crucifixion. At the low of the twentieth century, A. C. Bradley proposed another reason for the delay in his Shakespearean tragedy Bradley argued that ?Hamlets delay is the result of a melancholic state of mind, brought on by the death of his father and the hasty remarriage of his mother.