Read the excerpt from Act III of Hamlet.
Hamlet: Now might I do it pat, now he is praying;
And now I’ll do ’t: and so he goes to heaven;
And so am I reveng’d. That would be scann’d:
A villain kills my father; and for that,
I, his sole son, do this same villain send
To heaven.
Why, this is hire and salary, not revenge.
He took my father grossly, full of bread,
With all his crimes broad blown, as flush as May;
And how his audit stands who knows save heaven?
But in our circumstance and course of thought
’Tis heavy with him. And am I then reveng’d,
To take him in the purging of his soul,
When he is fit and season’d for his passage?
No.
Which statement best describes Hamlet’s complexity in the excerpt?
Hamlet wants to avenge his father’s death, but he doubts Claudius’s guilt.Hamlet wants to commit murder, but he worries about his own fate.Hamlet wants to kill Claudius, but he wants to be sure Claudius will suffer. Hamlet wants to end Claudius’s life, but he realizes he is incapable of violence.