Hamlet has a big decision to make, and that is weather or not he is going to kill his uncle. He does plan to do so and I believe that he has every right to feel as tho he should kill him.
Right when Hamlet is about to kill his uncle/ step father Claudius he stops, he has this hesitation. He finds his uncle praying and confessing. His uncle recognizes his guilt and is now speaking to God about this wrong doing he has done, Hamlet hesitates and does not kill Claudius. I think any person that was not stuck in the moment of killing or was not persuaded by anything would have hesitated before taking a life.
Hamlet does not however hesitate because he was taking a life but because he had found his uncle/ step father in redemption, he was covered in guilt asking for forgiveness, asking to be forgiven and this confession has Hamlet thinking of how to kill Claudius now would be completely unfair, Hamlets father died with out a warning without being able to ask for forgiveness for all he has not and is in either purgatory or hell, If Hamlet kills Claudius now that would only send Claudius to heaven, when Hamlet believes he deserves hell.
Hamlet in my opinion is over thinking this, but it shows how angry Hamlet is that his mother would marry the man that killed her husband his father. I think its cruel to want to send this man to eternal suffering but i can understand how frustrated Hamlet must feel and how his feelings would take over and just lead him to such cruelty.
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