Can Hamlet Be Considered a Tragic Hero?

In Hamlet, Shakespeare uses the tragedies and deaths to make the play a tragedy; Hamlet is a tragic hero because he is a person of high rank who violated a law, and he poses a threat to society and causes suffering to others through violating the law, which are all characteristics of a tragic hero.

How is Hamlet a tragic hero and what is his tragic flaw?

Shakespeare's tragic hero Hamlet's fatal flaw is his failure to act immediately to kill Claudius, his uncle and murderer of his father. His tragic flaw is 'procrastination'. ... His procrastination, his tragic flaw, leads him to his doom along with that of the other characters he targets.

Why is Hamlet considered a tragedy?

Hamlet is tragedy because the want of poetic justice, for them and the hero, keeps it a painful mystery; and because the chain of cause and effect prevents it equally from being 'Absurd' drama, as does Hamlet's final acceptance of Providence at work in it to 'shape our ends'.