This month we read the play called Hamlet by William Shakespeare. There are many different lessons that can be learned through reading this play and one of the major lessons is not to procrastinate. This is often something that our generation hears a lot. "Don't procrastinate," is definitely something that is said daily in my household. In the play, Hamlet, Shakespeare does a good job of showing all the negative things that can come out of procrastination. In the beginning of the play Hamlet finds out that King Claudius, his uncle, could have killed his father. He says that he is going to get revenge on him yet he has to wait a little longer in order to have actual proof that he indeed did kill his father. He puts together a plan to reenact the death of his father in front of King Claudius. He plans to watch his reaction so that he can tell whether or not he actually killed him. This plan worked and it was pretty clear that King Claudius had killed Hamlet's father. However, even once Hamlet had this proof he waited and waited to actually act and kill King Claudius.
This led to many tragic events throughout the rest of the play. Hamlet became very anxious and was constantly paranoid about getting this revenge. He ended up killing Polonious by accident and it all lead to the last scene where essentially all of the characters in the play, including Hamlet, meet their death. If Hamlet hadn't procrastinated he could have simply gotten revenge and killed King Claudius without all of the other characters having to suffer. This relates to my life in a way because for some reason I have a habit of procrastinating too much. I am very good at getting all of my work in on time and maintaining very good grades. However, I tend to put things off to the last minute, leaving me with a lot of unnecessary stress. When I am stressed out I also tend to be in a bad mood, which means that my family suffers from my procrastination because I become stressed and then in a bad mood and they have to be around me when I am in these bad moods. Similar to Hamlet, if I wouldn't procrastinate so much, I could save myself a lot of stress and save the people that live with me a lot of suffering due to my occasional bad moods brought on by stress.
