Hamlet/avenging his fathers death

[hootie618]

When did Hamlet finally find it within himself take revenge for his fathers death? And in the play does this transformation seem to take place?

[Gladys]

Never. He kills Claudius, in the heat of the moment, after Gertrude succumbs to the poison. Unpremeditated murder!

[ashnagesh]

Some have suggested that Hamlet was, in the final scene, avenging his own death rather than his father's; he knew he was dying when he killed Claudius ...