Hamlet: Revenge Or Scruples?

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Hamlet to leave the other two and speak
to it in privacy. Hamlet follows, despite the protests of the others, who fear
it may be an evil spirit, disguising as King Hamlet in order to gain their trust.
Horatio suggests that it may lead him astray and then "assume some other
horrible form / Which might deprive your sovereignty of reason / And draw you
into madness..." (I, iv, 80-82). Hamlet insists on listening to the message of
the ghost. Although he does not state it, perhaps Hamlet subconsciously
considers that Horatio is right, that the ghost is indeed a false messenger sent
to trouble him.
Hamlet does not kill Claudius immediately following his encounter with
the ghost because he is unsure of the ghost's accusations of Claudius and does
not want to murder him without proper motive. Hamlet would suffer in the eyes of
the people if he were to murder Claudius, the reigning king, and claim his
motive was the words of a ghost. Hamlet already disapproves of Claudius due to
his ...

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