'Hamlet's is a play about indecision'. Discuss.

Rather than being a play that is simply about 'indecision', Hamlet, one of Shakespeare's great tragedy plays, is instead a dramatic meditation on the human condition. Hamlet's first soliloquy begins with a meditation on mortality and purpose: 'O, that this too too solid flesh would melt/ Thaw and resolve itself into a dew!/ Or that the Everlasting had not fix'd/ His canon 'gainst self-slaughter! O God! O God!' His first address to the audience is a lament that suicide is forbidden by his belief in god. This establishes Hamlet as a educated character; he is a student at Wittenburg where he would have studied theology and philosophy, as universities at the time had a strict set curriculum. Indeed, this proclamation in Hamlet's first significant address to the audience, seems to anticipate Albert Camus' famous statement from The Myth of Sisyphus, 'There is but one philosophical question, that of suicide.' However, Hamlet decides to not kill himself because of the existence of God: 'Or that the Everlasting had not fix'd his canon 'gainst self-slaughter.' Hamlet is afraid of divine retribution in despite of the fact that he sees no real reason to live. His remark to Polonius: 'words, words, words' (2.2) is not only an act of derision towards Polonius, but also a reflection of the emptiness in Hamlet's life. He is defined as a thinker and student who is remarkably intelligent, however here his passion for study collapses into meaninglessness; the words are undefined into an abstract noun, and the repetition deconstructs the word into meaninglessness. Therefore, Hamlet is less a play about indecision, but more the meaninglessness of mortal life which in turn causes Hamlet to procrastinate his decisions.