Posted
9/30/2006 12:34:00 PM
by Douglas
Hamlet's tragic flaw: Indecision, or a noble sense to do the
right thing?This tremendous play, a symphony of cross purposes, might have been written to illustrate Francis Bacon’s maxim that revenge is a kind of “wild justice.” If it punishes the guilty, it also claims the innocent. As Shakespeare says elsewhere, “Thou shalt have justice — more than thou desirest.” Or as Hamlet puts it almost flippantly, “Use every man after his desert, and who should ’scape whipping?”
Yep, that's revenge alright.