Hamlet’s delay in seeking revenge “Revenge should know no bounds” – Claudius In William Shakespeare’s ‘Hamlet’, Hamlet vows to avenge his father’s death at the hands of Claudius, however, he procarastinates throughout the play and doesn’t seek revenge until the end, when Hamlet finally acts by his instincts, and kills his father’s murderer. Hamlet is stopped in seeking revenge by a number of factors throughout the play. He needs to know …showed first 75 words of 858 total…

…showed last 75 words of 858 total…done. As seen, in Hamlet, Hamlet promised to avenge his father’s death, the mission of revenge is something he takes no pleasure in. At first he seemed almost anxious to kill his uncle, but as the play continued, he considers his task in more serious terms. Hamlet procrastinated through factors of not knowing if the ghost was telling the truth through his fear of purgatory, through his ‘antic deposition’, and through protecting his mother.