Hamlet's Dilemma

I believe hamlet has done the right thing to think carefully about taking care of Claudius.  Even though Claudius is alone and defenseless he yields his reaction of killing.  Hamlet says he doesn't want to murder Claudius while he is praying because he's afraid he'll send Claudius's soul straight to "heaven." Revenge, for Hamlet, isn't simply about killing Claudius —it's about making sure he suffers in Hell, just like he thinks his father is doing. He wants to kill Claudius while he’s sinning so, that when he kills him he’ll go straight to hell.

There are thinkers, and there are doers. François de La Rochefoucauld says, “Thinkers think and doers do. But until the thinkers do and the doers think, progress will be just another word in the already overburdened vocabulary by sense.” François de La Rochefoucauld is trying to say that thinking is great and that it is always better to plan your action for the future and to weigh out the pro and cons of the plan. Doers do what comes first to their mind because it would seem to be a good idea at the time.

Hamlet is a thinker, I say this because Hamlet procrastinates when killing Claudius. His thought stops his process of revenge. He was always considered a thinker when he became indecisive after father's murder and also he contemplated about killing himself. He needed motivation to take action. He would watch others take action in order to take action.

In the end, he knew it was time to take revenge for his fathers death but he had to think when would be the perfect time to take revenge.