For an existentialist, the most important thing in life is to act. It is a human's own responsibility to make his life worthy of living, so an undesirable situation should be turned around in case it presents itself. Therefore, it is likely for Friedrich Nietzsche to have very strong feelings about Hamlet's lack of action in the play.
Most of us, including me, might think that Hamlet's inability to act accordingly comes from his being a scholar, and knowing too much. An open range of possibilities leads the way to indecision, which is exactly what I thought was happening to Hamlet. However, Nietzsche seemed to think differently. Stating that Hamlet's problem was not too much reflection, Friedrich Nietzsche said that Hamlet is stopped by his true knowledge.
Hamlet has apparently seen it all, and he is similar to the Dionysian state in the way that he knows the true essence of things, and has gained knowledge. According to Nietzsche, "action requires the veils of illusion," and since Hamlet knows the horrible truth, there is no way for him to take action. Hamlet knows that the world is as it is, and there is nothing he can do to change it. Therefore, he feels humiliated when he is "asked to set out a world that is out of joint."
There is no denying that Hamlet is a well-educated scholar, who makes his way with words in order to avoid action. The question is if his inability to act comes from his large amount of possibilities and indecision upon one of them, or from his deep knowledge of the life that lies ahead and the truth that he can't change it in any way. There is still the chance that the whole play is a fake, and by choosing not to act, Hamlet has caught himself in the midst of a decision.
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