ENGL 150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Tragic Hero
17 Sep 2016
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Thesis: it is often said that procrastination is opportunity"s assassination. In shakespeare"s play the central character hamlet is depicted as the classic tragic hero, who ultimately falls due to his tragic flaw. Many believe hamlet"s dissention is due to being overwhelmed by his own conscience. Excuse for doing nothing: hamlet"s delay , dawson argues that hamlet never had enough time to finishing thinking out his plan, however after reading the play it is made clear that hamlet"s tragic flaw is his inability to act. Claudius confession: young: hamlet catches claudius in prayer, ab rare time he will find claudius, but he still. I: during the passage where hamlet finds king claudius at prayer in the closet, he refusing to kill claudius. After discovering claudius hamlet beings to think that if. Claudius is confessing to the murder of king hamlet, his soul will not be damned.
