Contradictions in William Shakespeare\'s Hamlet

villages prime(prenominal) thoughts after discipline of his fathers execution of instrument are of an immediate, groundless revenge upon Claudius. However, his subsequent satisfys 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 central weakness is that he is continu anyy resolving to do, yet doing vigour that resolve. \nHamlets first soliloquy, following a foreign conversation with Claudius and Gertrude, shows him grief-stricken, bitter and despairing. The bug of Hamlets melancholy is his fathers death and the oer-hasty nuptials of his mother and uncle. He feels he has to do something, and he does not know exactly what. He expresses his disgust at his mothers inconstancy and incestuous remarriage, but is bound to suffer in silence: he must(prenominal) hold [his] tongue for reasons of diplomacy. The existence seems empty, a nd he uses imagery of corruption, darkness, distemper and imprisonment to reveal his produce of mind. At the beginning of the play, all Hamlet sees is a fearful situation which he has no power to change. \nThe ghosts command wherefore gives Hamlet purpose; a reason to live. Its instruction is transparent: if thou didst ever thy heartfelt father love...revenge his foul and virtually unnatural murder. The apparition, armed from gallery to foot, then relates the explanation of Claudius treachery in vivid and horrible detail. It is now seeming(a) to Hamlet what is rotten in the state of Denmark. Shakespeare makes it very distinctly 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 forces 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 certain that the ghost of the old king has appeared with a message for his son....