Changes I would make in Hamlet After Hamlet is landed in Denmark by pirates in act four, scene six of Hamlet, he is transformed from a man of contemplation to a man of action. Before his aborted journey to England, Hamlet spends the majority of the play (between the first scene of the second act and the fifth scene of the fourth act) deciding what to do about his dead father's order to avenge his "turbulent and unnatural homocide". ." Although Hamlet believes that revenge against his uncle is the morally correct thing to do and that revenge is required by family loyalty, he still finds many excuses to delay. The most egregious example of an excuse Hamlet makes to avoid killing his uncle is found in act three, scene three, when Hamlet comes close to killing his uncle, but refrains from carrying out the act because his uncle is praying, scene one, Hamlet even considers suicide as an alternative to vendetta of the father, saying that the "sleep of death", with the end of "pains and a thousand natural shocks / That flesh is heir of...