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Hamlet is a thinker not a man of action.” With particular reference to Hamlet’s soliloquies and actions, how far to you agree with this statement?
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"Hamlet is a thinker not a man of action." With particular reference to Hamlet's soliloquies and actions, how far to you agree with this statement? Hamlet's one mission in the play is to revenge the death of his father by killing Claudius, however his procrastination leads to his untimely death, the deaths of many others in the Danish court and the relinquishment of Denmark to Fortinbras. Hamlet's first words show a desire of revenge towards Claudius "A little more than kin and less than kind." But later in his soliloquy we see that he is actually closer to killing himself, than killing Claudius or the perpetrator: "O that this too too sullied flesh would melt, / Thaw and resolve itself into a dew," He doesn't even contemplate killing Claudius; he hopes that the situation will resolve itself, which it never will, showing his unwillingness to act. This soliloquy also shows that he...
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