Hamlet as a tragic hero Hamlet is the best-known tragedy in today's literature. Here, Shakespeare exposes Hamlet's flaws as a heroic character. The tragedy in this play is the result of the main character's unrealistic ideals and his inability to overcome the weakness of indecision. This fatal attribute led to the deaths of several people including his mother and the king of Denmark. Although he is described as a courageous and intelligent person, his tendency to procrastinate has prevented him from taking action following his father's murder, his mother's marriage, and his uncle's accession to the throne. Hamlet, thinking that this trait was genetic, talks about his father's tragic flaw that would ultimately lead to his death. Thus, it often happens particularly with men, that by some vicious mole of nature in them, as, in their birth, of which they are not guilty (since nature cannot choose its origin), from the o'er growth of a certain complexion, often knocking down the posts and fortresses of reason, or by some habit which too much levitates the form of plausible ways - which these men, bearing, I say, the imprint of a defect, being nature's livery, or star of fortune, their other virtues, even as pure as grace, in the general censure will take corruption from that particular fault. The drama of evil is all the noble substance of doubt. Hamlet refers to the only deficiency which is his specific fault. Again Shakespeare attempts to justify Hamlet's inability to act decisively. He writes: “How, in their birth, of which they are not guilty (Act 1 Scene 1 Line 26). Hamlet's tragic flaw was shown to him in a dream by the ghost of his father. His father tells him that he was murdered by his uncle Claudio. In this scene, the tragic flaw was transferred and manifested in Hamlet's actions. His obsession with revenge and death is all he can think about. He needs to act quickly and decisively, but finds himself procrastinating on what to do. In Act III, Hamlet holds the knife above his uncle Claudius' head, but fails to deliver the fatal blow. Instead, he writes a play on the same scenario to study Claudio's reaction as a clue to his guilt. After deciding that Claudio is guilty of killing his father, he still gives up on taking revenge. He says, "Let me know that I, with wings as swift as meditation or the thought of love, can sweep away my vengeance.