What part of the story in Hamlet by William Shakespeare is the conflict?
The conflict runs through the entire story. Hamlet is in conflict with Claudius, although neither one of them will openly acknowledge that fact. Hamlet is also in conflict with himself, torn between his obligation to avenge his father (which one part of him is all too willing to do, since it consists of killing Claudius) and his intellectual nature, which tells him to be sure of Claudius’s guilt first and then causes him to pass up a perfect opportunity to take vengeance, so that he generally messes up the situation and finally succeeds in doing what his father’s ghost expects of him (and what he really at heart wants to do) only at the price of his own life.
