Contradictions in William Shakespeare\'s Hamlet

settlements eldest thoughts after schooling of his fathers strike are of an immediate, ruddy revenge upon Claudius. However, his subsequent military actions do not live up to these resolutions. Over four acts he takes little deliberate action against his uncle, although the ghost explicitly demands a swift revenge. In S. T. Coleridges words, Hamlets telephone exchange weakness is that he is continu solelyy resolving to do, yet doing zip scarce resolve. \nHamlets first soliloquy, following a incompatible conversation with Claudius and Gertrude, shows him grief-stricken, bitter and despairing. The blood line of Hamlets melancholy is his fathers death and the oer-hasty espousals of his mother and uncle. He feels he has to do something, exactly he does not know barely what. He expresses his disgust at his mothers inconstancy and incestuous remarriage, but is bound to suffer in silence: he mustiness hold [his] tongue for reasons of diplomacy. The realism seems empty, and he uses imagery of corruption, darkness, indisposition and imprisonment to reveal his solid ground of mind. At the beginning of the play, all Hamlet sees is a implike situation which he has no power to change. \nThe ghosts command indeed gives Hamlet purpose; a reason to live. Its instruction is plain: if thou didst ever thy in effect(p) father love...revenge his foul and well-nigh unnatural murder. The apparition, armed from header to foot, then relates the degree of Claudius treachery in written and horrible detail. It is now apparent to Hamlet what is rotten in the state of Denmark. Shakespeare makes it very decipherable what Hamlets duty is and who his enemy is. Hamlet is charged to avenge his fathers murder and free Denmark from the shadow of the fags fratricide, regicide and incest. \nShakespeare establishes Claudius as Hamlets opposite and enemy in the first Act. Claudius is introduced before Hamlet, but the audience is already alert that the ghost of the old king has appeared with a message for his son....