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In the play Hamlet, by William Shakespeare; Hamlet delay’s the revenge of his fathers death, because of his uncontrollable urge to stop and think about everything, which keeps him from acting on his desire to revenge his father’s murderer or take his own life. ....

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.... either good or bad, but thinking makes it so” (5, ii, 230). His constant hesitation is attributed to rationalization. It is his hesitation, rationalization, excessive thinking, all combined, to almost literally become his fatal flaw. It is his indecisiveness that almost kills him. Although from the very opening of the play, Hamlet recognizes that it is his filial duty to avenge the murder of his father by killing the murderer, his uncle, he does not perform this duty until he is actually pressed to it by circumstance, and until it is at the point of death himself. “Now might I do it pat, now he is paying; And now I’ll do’t. And so ....