King: Fortinbras Vs Hamlet

1.Who would you prefer to be your king -- Fortinbras or Hamlet? I would prefer to have Fortinbras as my king, due to the few unworthy qualities Hamlet contains. Some of these characteristics include patience, distraction, and selfishness. He show patience by taking a long time to kill Claudius. Hamlet is provided with multiple opportunities to kill Claudius. However, Hamlet waits to till the right moment, which unfortunately happens at the very end of the play. While spending all this time planning, Hamlet could have spent his time helping the country and helping the people around him. Hamlet is constantly distracted as well. While fighting against Laertes to regain his honor, Hamlet is completely unaware that Fortinbras and his men have …show more content…
For example, In the very beginning of the play the ghost of Hamlet’s father appears. Hamlet quickly relies on Horatio and the other men to keep the ghost a secret. Horatio ultimately honors this request and never reveals the ghost. Loyalty is also portrayed when Hamlet gets sent away for being” mad”.Horatio not only tries to save Hamlet, but when het is officially in England Horatio stays back in Denmark and tries to fix the mess Hamlet made. Another reason Horatio is so loyal is because of their friendship and Horatio's balancing characteristics. Horatio and Hamlet have not only been friends in the palace, but both of them have know each other since they were young. Hamlet and Horatio attended the same school and have stayed close through the years. Horatio also contains the characteristic of the scholar, which helps him connect with Hamlet’s intelligence. Hamlet has the tendency to overthink situation, and act rase during times. Horatio is the opposite. He overlooks all of Hamlet decisions are secretly shifts Hamlet in the right direction. Between Hamlet's crazy behavior and Horatio's scholarly attitude, their personalities balance each other out, creating the strongest …show more content…
Once in the forest and once in Gertrude's room. I believe the ghost was real the first time, but was a figure of Hamlet’s imagination the second. The first time we see the ghost is in the forest with Hamlet. This has to be real due to the amount of detail the ghost provided. He explained to Hamlet exactly how he died. The events that the ghost explained were then proved to be true during the play. In addition, Hamlet was not the only one who witness the ghost. Horatio and the guards saw the ghost numerous amounts of times before Hamlet had witnessed it himself. Although the ghost in the forest is real the ghost in the room was not. During this moment Hamlet had just killed Polonius and his adrenaline was rushing. He had no concept of who he killed let alone if the ghost was real. Plus Hamlet was the only to see the ghost this time unlike in the forest. The imagination of the ghost was a result of a breakdown under