Hamlet Was Weak and Diminutive Hamlet is by far weak and diminutive; he is continually resolving to do but does nothing to resolve. The character of Hamlet stands quite by itself. It is not a character marked by strength of will or even of passion, but by refinement of thought and sentiment. Hamlet is as little of the hero as a man can well be. He is incapable of deliberate action, and is only hurried into extremities on the spur of the occasion when he has no time to reflect. At other times, when he is most bound to act, he remains puzzled, undecided, and skeptical. He dallies with his purposes, until the occasion is lost, and finds out some pretense to relapse into indolence and thoughtfulness again. Hamlet’s first scene with his mother reveals a weakness other than his father’s death. The quote, “I have that within which passeth show, / These but the trappings a....

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