In Act IV, two opposite people, Laertes and Hamlet basically looks like they are in the same situation. But there is only one little thing that differs each other which is "the speed of action."
What I mean by speed of action is that , we have read over 200 pages and almost every single page, Hamlet talks about his sweet revenge, how he is going to kill Cladius ,etc. But he has done so much other things that has nothing to do with taking revenge from Cladius. He started to mess with Ophelia, after, he drove her crazy by killing his dad for no reason. He took so much time. Instead of just going ahead and killing Cladius, for some reason he just waited for the right time which have never came. After causing so much trouble, he had to go back to England. But unluckily, he ended up in Fortinbras ship and got back to Denmark.
Unlike what Hamlet is doing, Laertes is competely different. Right after he heard that Hamlet killed his father, he was so angry that he went in the palace , and put his sword on King's throat. He was going to kill him just because he didn't take care of Hamlet. If Hamlet was as brave as Laertes, Cladius would have been dead. Because basically Cladius killed King Hamlet, and send Hamlet to England to get him killed. But he wasn't as brave as Laertes. Laertes negotiated with Cladius and from what we understood in Act IV, he is going to poison him.
Basically, only thing that differs Hamlet and Laertes is the speed of action.
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