Hamlet/Death of a Salesman Essay
Procrastination is a fascinating thing, it can change the path that you take in life and the way that you can live the rest of your life. Hamlet and Willy Loman are both major procrastinators and when they have to take action they always have a reason not to. They over think the task, procrastinate thinking there will always be a better chance to do what they have to do, and always would rather someone else do the job for them. For Willy Loman and Hamlet Prince of Denmark making decisions and following through with them are very challenging, they make bad decisions all the time and it costs them their lives.
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Willy has absolutely no common sense and believes that this will work. He believes that the boys will be able to make a huge amount of money off of this scam. “Lick the world! You guys together could absolutely lick the civilized world!” (Pg.65). This is another showing of hot the whole family can only think about how the boys will do so well with this idea but really they have no chance because no one wants to go see them. They think about licking the world but they never will be able to do that. Willy has corrupted his family in to this fake thought that every thing you do comes easy, and nothing could be farther from the troth.
Hamlet is a great thinker but when it comes to having to act on his thoughts Hamlet has a really hard time translating thoughts into actions. One of the things that hamlet is really shaken up by is the passing of Fortenbras through Denmark. Hamlet is talking to the Caption of the Norwegian army. And is wondering what they are doing attacking Poland, Hamlet has a sudden realization that these men are walking into there death and they have no problem with that, and he cant even kill the man who killed his father? “How all occasions do inform against me, and spur my dull revenge! What is a man if his chief good and market of his time Be but to sleep and feed? A beast, no more. Sure, he that made us with such large discourse, looking before and after, gave us not that capability and godlike reason to fust in us unused. Now, whether it be bestial oblivion, or some craven scruple”. Hamlet has a realization that he should be able to go throught with his plan to kill the king who killed his fauther, because twenty thousand...