Hamlet is a careful and calculating character who seeks to avenge his father's death while still trying to deal with his own death. Being at the center of the play, Hamlet is a character that many readers can easily identify with and empathize with (Klein, Hamlet: Overview). Like many, Hamlet is able to admit his strengths and flaws as a person. Hamlet admits of himself, “I am very proud, vindictive, ambitious…” (3.1.122-127). While he may be proud of these characteristics about himself, these traits prove to hinder him in his attempt to avenge his father's death. Hamlet is able to admit some of his most notable traits; however, he is also hateful and cruel, which leads him down a destructive path of revenge (Bloom, 19). dead father that Hamlet must "avenge his disgusting and unnatural murder" (1.5.25). Hamlet finds himself faced with the murder of his father's killer with very little instruction or help. James Black wrote: “It is chiefly in this respect that the plot of Shakespeare's Hamlet differs from his predecessors and successors, in that the hero has serious ethical considerations as to what he must do” (Black, Shakespeare and the Comedy of revenge undergoes careful consideration in choosing his uncle's fate). the revenge he will take. In his quest for revenge, Hamlet