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Indecisiveness     In the story crossroads, there is a prince who is unable to study decisions for himself. A prince who must have good quality proof in the lead he decides to do something. The public refers to people who cannot make decisions for themselves as people who are undecided. In juncture, the prince of Denmark, Hamlet, is unable to make decisions for himself, and relies on the actions of others to make his final choice on wether to kill his Uncle Claudius or not. Many situations confirm this, such as when Hamlet put on a play, when someone was killed with something placed into the actors ear kill him and making Claudius panic and blow over off. Or when Hamlet says, "Ill have grounds/ more relative than this--the plays the thing/ Wherein Ill catch the conscience of the King" (II.ii.583-585), this suggests that Hamlet is indecisive because he does not have enough information to decide if Claudius is guilty or not. And also in many of Hamle ts soliloquies, Hamlet speaks to himself and questions his testify judgement at many times during the play. All this can lead one to believe that Hamlets fatal flaw was his inability to make a solid choice, or indecisiveness.     Hamlets friend invited a group of traveling actors to come to the court and preform an act for Hamlet to play him up. Hamlet financially supports this group of actors and asks for them to, at the end, have a killing in which a liquid will be placed into the ear of a actor, thus killing him. Hamlet believes this will make Claudius snap and he will have enough proof to kill Claudius. The plan goes as follows and Claudius stands up, shouts for light, and rushes off. Hamlet and his friend Horatio agree that this is enough proof. But still, even after this incident, Hamlet never does anything to capitalize. Because of this incident, where in any other circumstance, Claudius would have no reason to run off, but he did, Hamlet should have bee n convinced that the spectre of his father that spoke to him months before was the ghost of his father, and not the devil.     In act two, scene two, Hamlet says "Ill have grounds/ more relative than this--the plays the thing/ Wherein Ill catch the conscience of the King" (II.ii.583-585), this tells a lot about Hamlet. First off, even though the ghost looked like his father, he would not believe the ghost, fearing the devil may have taken his fathers form.