How Does Hamlet Wont Commit Murder?

Hamlet won 't commit murder because he 's a Christian and his "faith in Divine Providence", prohibits such violent. Hamlet won 't avenge his father 's murder for the simple fact that he doesn 't have the willpower to do so. With the knowledge that his father is in purgatory, also gives Hamlet the reassurance that he won 't be dammed if, he acted upon his deceased father wishes. A purgatory is a place where certain individuals believe that even though, they may not have lived a holy and pleasing life on earth. That if they confess their sins just before they die, will serve time there to be cleansed and then they can enter heaven. That knowledge right there would have been enough to ensure where his soul would have rested. He 's a prince he

On the other hand when Ophelia 's father had been killed no one questioned her for behavior, for the simple fact that she was a woman and Hamlet being a man needed to act tough and not appear weak. Yes, he did make plans to have a drink with Horatio, but simply because one plans to have a drink means he 's " may soon be ready to heal"? However less than 100 lines earlier ( Act 1.2 76-86)

Hamlet: Seems, madam! nay it is; I know not 'seems. ' 'Tis not alone my inky cloak, good mother,

Nor customary suits of solemn

He explains that the physical and visible grief is nothing compared to how he feels inside.

I agree that Hamlet was mad, became a crazed fool. He wanted to put on a front and appear mad as a reason as to why he was acting the way he was, however, I believe that he no longer was putting on an act. Elizabethans believed that the human body was composed of 4 elements phlegm,black bile, blood and, yellow bile. In Hamlet, Shakespeare used the illness melancholy meaning too much black bile in the body. They believed it leads to being irritable, and weird imaginations. Hamlet was suffering and those around him shoved it off and told him that he need to man up. O ' that this too too solid flesh would melt, thaw and resolve itself into a dew( Act 1.2 129-130). Hamlet right there talks about wanting to die because of his father 's death. So later on when Hamlet tells friends that he 's going to appear mad when in fact he was already suffering from melancholy in the beginning of the play. His own mother 's behavior causes him to turn on Ophelia, his lover. He denounces her and pushes her