The ways in which Hamlet resists his Mother and seems to delay his act of revenge are often viewed separately. Yet reference to the Senecan tale of Hercules' choice of Virtue over Pleasure (Hercules at the Crossroads) and an awareness of clear echoes of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics in the play suggest a reading by which Hamlet's responses to persons and events are all viewed as a deliberate choice of Virtue in the Aristotelian sense, made by the Aristotelian method of inward deliberation.