Why Did Hamlet Procrastinate?

Hamlet is the son of the late King Hamlet of Denmark, who died two months before the start of the play. After his death of his brother, Claudius, becomes king, and marries King Hamlet's widow, Gertrude, Queen of Denmark. Young Hamlet suspects that Claudius killed his own brother, Hamlet's father, to become king of Denmark. Hamlet's dead father came back as a ghost. The ghost tells Hamlet secretly that Claudius has murdered King Hamlet by pouring poison in his ear. Hamlet becomes angry and procrastinates on how to avenge his father's death.

First, he confuse and trying to figure out if the ghost is telling him the truth or is ghost a devil from hell trying to get him to kill his uncle. He did not want to kill an innocent person and go to hell. He continues to procrastinate because he was watching his uncle and trying to see if he would give him some undeniable proof of his guilt.

Another reason, he procrastinate is because he was trying to figure out if his mother was a complicit in his father's murder. He is hurt and feels very much betrayed by his mother. Hamlet did a lot of reasoning with himself trying to figure out why his mother had become such a weak woman.

Final reason for his procrastinating, he was human. Hamlet is a good man with a good heart. He had once loved his uncle. He just couldn't cold-bloodily kill someone he once loved.

In the end, with the procrastinating Hamlet did to find out the truth. He killed his Uncle in a rage because of his mother's poisoning. The ironically to the ending it seems when he did kill Claudius, he killed him to avenge his mother death not so much his father.