Hamlet's Delay

Everyone is dealt a card, chosen a destiny. The card to that person appears blank, but it already has that person's future written on it. Often, that destiny is an absolute product of what family the person is born into, for belonging to a family often implies certain responsibilities. In Hamlet by William Shakespeare, Prince Hamlet, for being the only son of a murdered king, is, at some level, required to restore the family's honor and avenge his father's death by killing Claudius, the man who not only killed the former king, but now occupies his thrown and is married to his wife. Hamlet's delay to fulfill his responsibility to his family of avenging his father is not a cause of Hamlet's inability to kill Claudius, but is rather a cause of Hamlet's lack of will to follow through with it. Hamlet labels...