Hamlet�s Delay:
Hamlet�s delay has been an issue of endless controversy. Hamlet�s soliloquies lend first true insight his contemplative nature and illustrate the problem of his procrastination. John Holloway says: �Hamlet�s soliloquies are foremost in bringing the idea of his delay to our notice.� Throughout reading Shakespeare�s Hamlet, there is an underlying question at hand that has plagued the minds of many scholars that what took Hamlet so long to carry out the orders of his noble father who contacted him beyond the grave. Regarding this question a number of theories have been advanced. Of course there are the critics like T.S.Eliot which refuse to take any notice of it. According to them it is certainly an artistic flaw. If Hamlet would have killed Claudius the play would have ended somewhere in Act-II. So Shakespeare was forced to delay the revenge. Still there are some other critics that argue that there was no delay at all on Hamlet�s part and everything that he does is deliberate and calcula...