Horatio In Hamlet

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Prince Hamlet’s father passes away. A month later Claudius, Hamlets uncle, marries Gertrude, who is Hamlet’s mother, and becomes king. Hamlet is upset and believes no one cares about his father’s death and him. Horatio, Hamlet’s best friend, visits Hamlet and tells him that he cares about him and wants to be there for him and him only, Horatio also tells Hamlet that he saw a ghost and that it might be his father. Hamlet speaks to the ghost and the ghosts reveals that he is Hamlet’s father and Claudius killed him and Hamlet needs to avenge him by Killing Claudius. Hamlet then creates a plan to act crazy to try to trick everybody. Hamlet then has a group of actors to perform a play that would reveal’s Claudius guilt and it would tell Hamlet if

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