Hamlet As A Tragic Hero

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actor had. A group of players has arrived and Hamlet
arranges a personal viewing of The Murder of Gonzago with a small portion of his
own lines inserted. Hamlet then observes one portion of the play in which one
of the players put on a great display of emotion. Hamlet, besieged by guilt and
self-contempt, remarks in his second soliloquy of Hamlet of the emotion this
player showed despite the fact that the player had nothing to be emotional about.
Hamlet observed that he himself had all the reason in the world to react with
great emotion and sorrow, yet he failed to show any that could compare with the
act of the player. Hamlet calls himself a "rogue and peasant slave" and a "dull
and muddy-mettled rascal" who, like a "John-a-dreams", can take no action.
Hamlet continues his fiery speech by degrading himself and resoluting to take
some sort of action to revenge his father's death.
Next, Hamlet's flaw of irresolution is shown after his third soliloquy, the
famed "To be ...

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