How Does Shakespeare Present The Theme Of Revenge In Hamlet

Imagine you are in a horrible car accident; the wind is roaring and the rain is pouring as you step out of the crashed vehicle; as you look out on the road you see a dog laying in the street dying and the car that hit you pull away. Having to deal with personal tragedy and immediate action along with vengeance and personal feeling occur throughout the events of The Tragedy of Hamlet. Shakespeare is able to portray this fact ever more solidly when Hamlet is faced with the death of his father. This hatches a revenge plot that Hamlet in his moral state is unable to deal with in an acceptable manner. Thus it is represented by Shakespeare with Hamlet's hesitation to kill his uncle -the one who killed his father- but is also represented in the behavior
In Shakespeare's Hamlet, the author establishes Hamlet's sensitive moral nature by pitting it against his sovereign need for revenge by using the theme of reluctance and inaction in the play.

Hamlet's actions throughout the play display that Hamlet is rather immature in the way he goes about enacting his revenge plan. His immaturity which is portrayed throughout the play could be from a social detachment from his family. Seeing as how Hamlet has no mention of other siblings it is easy to assume that he grew up alone around private scholastic teachers and other authority figures. As Allan Massie puts it, " Hamlet can be played as an indecisive and self-questioning Romantic intellectual (the Gielgud interpretation), or as a mixed-up kid, immature, uncertain of himself, veering from self-love to self-loathing by way of self-pity." This description of Hamlet is a general description of how he is portrayed in the play. However as David Thatcher explains "Hamlet is extremely partial to the word" ass "as a term of derision and contempt... Such a mind is well capable of perpetrating the suppressed quibble of "Claudi-ass." Hamlet, obliquely and allusively, took advantage of "the latter end"
One of the more irregular actions that Hamlet takes in the story is the killing of Polonius when Hamlet confronts his mother. Hamlet thinks he hears a rat then thrusts a blade into the curtain ending the life of Polonius, but when he has the chance to murder his uncle he becomes withdrawn. Perhaps the greatest example of how Hamlet becomes withdrawn is when he first comes face to face with his uncle who promptly asks, "How Fares our cousin Hamlet?" To which Hamlet replies, "Excellent, i'faith, of the chameleon's dish:/I eat the air, promise-crammed. You cannot feed/ capons so."(3.2.97-100) Where once again a swift strike could have ended his uncle Hamlet once again prefers to take the route of inaction becoming withdrawn and engaging in small talk. Thus when Hamlet desires to end the life of his uncle for the murder of his father he prefers to make his revenge plot all the more complex. For instance, as soon as Hamlet's uncle knows that Hamlet is aware of his guilt he immediately begins to plan his death. Perhaps these fallacies are evident to Shakespeare as Paul Jorgensen puts it, "Hamlet, as a corrective surrogate form of war in Denmark, wages a still more crucial war as an instrument of destiny. He is a human being, one who must battle within himself a war in itself, a war between ruthlessness (a terrible passion) and