The main character Hamlet, after learning that his father's death was a murder and promising to take revenge, waits and makes sure that what he knows is the absolute truth before he even attempts to take revenge on Claudius. Hamlet is very private with his grief. His sadness is long and after two months after his father's death, he still wears "suits of solemn black." Even though his mother remarried to his uncle so quickly, he does not suspect anything of his father's murder until the ghost tells him. Hamlet thinks over what he is to do, and how he is to avenge the murder of his father. But that does not mean that he cannot act on impulse. When he and Laertes fight over Ophelia's grave, it shows how much Hamlet can act impulsively. He forms this elaborate scheme in which Hamlet ha

Hamlet and Laertes represent two opposite extremes of action, procrastinated and immediate. Fortinbras is somewhere between them. He is the son of the King of Norway, also named Fortinbras, who was killed in a battle against King Hamlet. When his father died, his uncle was named king, just like in Hamlet's situation. Fortinbras

Now might I do it pat, now he is praying;/And now I'll do't;-and so he goes to heaven;/And so am I reveng'd.-that would be scann'd:/ A villain kills my father; and for that,/ I, his sole son, do this same villain send/ To heaven/ O, this is hire and salary, not revenge./ He took my father grossly, full of bread;/ With all his crimes broad blown, as flush as May;/ And how his audit stands, who knows save heaven?/ But in our circumstance and course of thought,/ 'Tis heavy with him: and am I, then, reveng'd,/ To take him in the purging of his soul,/ When he is fit and season'd for his passage?/ No./ Up, sword, and know thou a more horrid hent:/ When he is drunk asleep; or in his rage;/ Or in the incestuous pleasure of his bed;/ At gaming, swearing; or about some act/ That has no relish of salvation in't;-/ Then trip him, that his heels may kick at heaven;/ And that his soul may be as damn'd and black/ As hell, whereto it goes. My mother stays:/ This physic but prolongs thy sickly days. (Act III, Scene iii, lines 77-100)

Before Hamlet dies, he orders Horatio to give the kingdom of Denmark to Fortinbras for he will be a great king. It is evident that Fortinbras has much respect for Hamlet because he gives the order for hamlet to have a soldier's burial.

Witness this army of such mass and charge/Led by a delicate and tender prince,/Whose spirit with divine ambition puf'd/Makes mouths at the invisible event,/Exposing what is mortal and unsure/To all that fortune, death and danger dare,/

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