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"Â…but the great object of his life is defeated by continually resolving to do, yet doing is nothing but resolve."
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge

William Shakespeare has written many famous plays, one of which is the great tragedy of Hamlet. Samuel Taylor Coleridge, an accomplished English poet, spoke of Hamlet's character in one of his lectures. In the play, Hamlet is torn between his feelings of revenge and a kinder soul of cruelty. He seeks to avenge his late father's death by killing the man who has murdered him. Even though all of the signs for the motive to kill the king are apparent, Hamlet still procrastinates on taking action. Yet, by the end of the story, Hamlet is finally able to find resolve.

In his Lectures of 1811-1812, Lecture XII, Samuel Coleridge discussed Hamlet's character. He ultimately said that Shakespeare could have had Hamlet kill his father's murderer the first chance he had in Act II. Instead he chose to have Hamlet's intellect overrule his desire to act......

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