"Now I might do it, no, he's praying, / And now I will." (3.3.77-78) Hamlet sees the opportunity to kill the king and even begins to go through with it, but then he starts thinking again and misses the opportunity. Hamlet says "And so it goes to heaven, / And so I take my revenge. That.../ In heaven." (3.3.79-83) Hamlet's argument for not killing the king is that if Claudius is actually praying then he will be sent to heaven upon his death. Although his argument is logical, this is the most opportune moment for Hamlet because the king is alone and rarely is. His rationality, once again, stood in the way of completing his mission, and when he failed to do so, he set his own downfall in stone. So Hamlet fails in his quest for revenge while somehow still managing to achieve his true goal of angelicness. Thus, since Hamlet is incapable of deciding whether to truly trust the ghost, and since he cannot contemplate suicide without questioning the meaning of his existence, and finally if Hamlet is incapable of killing the king without assumptions and heavenly thoughts, then the tragic Hamlet's flaw must be that he is unable to act without rationally analyzing the