Hamlet: Weakness or Delayed Justice? Your Father dies, you suspect your uncle, a Ghost tells you that in-fact your uncle did kill your father, and the ghost tells you to seek vengeance. In Hamlet’s time the only way of getting was to kill the person. So, why does Hamlet wait so long to get his revenge? That question of time has been a key to the book. It brings up so many questions with …showed first 75 words of 1189 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1189 total…and kills Laerties, and Claudius. He overlooks the forms of estrangement and his problems with the ghost. He was not sure if he could go through with it, but in the end he had to do what was right for the time. He probably was correct in waiting to get his revenge. If he would have acted too soon it could have been real bad for him. He not only got vengeance, he got justice.