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Hamlet's Hamartia

There are probably many different hamartia's exibited by Hamlet, the one that seems most obvious would have to be his indecisivness. Hamlet seems to have trouble making up his mind about a couple of different dilemma's that he is faced with. A good example is his struggle with wether or not he should kill Claudius. Hamlet's flaw was that he ruined his life by not confronting the problem earlier, instead he wanted to obtain proof beyond a reasonable doubt to justify what he wanted to do to Claudius, and nothing less would suffice. Hamlet not only wanted to kill Claudius, he wanted to damn him to hell. However, during
his mental battle he wasn't seeing the damage he was doing to himself. By Feigning madness he almost got himself killed a few times, he destroyed the relationship he had with his mother, and he sent Ophelia into a downward spiral of depression that ended with her suicide, and her suicide led to to the final bloodbath at the end which saw nearly everyone killed.......


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