Lack Of Trust In Hamlet

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Hamlet’s lack of empathy and trust towards his peer characters hold him back from becoming a hero. Hamlet has issues trusting his family and household because of repetitive betrayals by his mother and uncle, his intimate (and partially incestuous) affair with Ophelia, and the death of his father. Hamlet does not want to deal with emotional depression and confusion alone, but he simply does not know who to trust and automatically responds with a hostile and negative attitude towards anyone whom he feels has betrayed him in the past. Hamlet, while speaking to his mother, states that God has punished him and he has to maintain a nearly double personality in order to cope; “I must be cruel, to be kind” (3.4, 161). Here, Hamlet, in essence, is saying that he must keep everyone in line in order to gain their trust. A conflicting statement in the sense that he wants help and honesty, Hamlet is too confused and torn to reach the point of …show more content…
And now i’ll do it. Draws his sword
And so ‘a 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. Why, this is hire and salary, not revenge. ‘A 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?” (3.3, 72-82)
Hamlet is reluctant to take action and kill Claudius without getting caught, but decides, at last-second, not to. Afraid of Claudius going to heaven because he is in prayer, Hamlet does not feel the man who killed his father deserves to go to heaven. Claudius, according to Hamlet, has gotten too much already: Gertrude, rule over Denmark, a new son/nephew, dark secrets, and undeserved respect. Yet, Hamlet has a moment of confliction and decides he does not feel Claudius deserves death quite so soon, and the best decision is to wait until the right moment in which Claudius receives the death he

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