Similarities Between Hamlet And Horatio

Both Hamlet and Horatio are young and intelligent men and attend the same school in Wittenberg, Germany. Besides that similarity, they are about the same age. Furthermore, both of them have remarkably loyal characters. For example, Hamlet is loyal to the love as well as the memory of his beloved father. Also, he is doing his best in order to ascertain the truthfulness of the story with a ghost and then retaliate the death of his father. At the same time, Horatio is loyal by keeping the secrets of Hamlet, including the emergence of a ghost as well as Claudiu’s guilt in the murder of King Hamlet and, ultimately, the surprise return of Hamlet to Denmark from the aborted trip to England.
What is more, both of them expose concern for other people. For example, Hamlet is exceedingly concerned about the morality of the court system in Denmark and, in particular, his mother. While Horatio reveals a great concern for the safety of Hamlet in Act 1, when he forewarns Hamlet to be cautious in his meeting with the ghost, lest it does something to kill him(Shakespeare, Raffel and Bloom). Moreover, in Act 4, Horatio warns Hamlet to be careful going into the sword fight with Laertes(Shakespeare, Raffel and Bloom).
To add to it, both Hamlet and Horatio express a readiness to die for their principles. In particular, Hamlet resigns himself to …show more content…
Even though Horatio commiserate with Hamlet’s situation, still, he displays caution. Hamlet has no choice to keep moving forward with his intentions, such as they are, in order to prove the guilt of Claudius and eventually avenge the death of his father. What is more, a major idea represented throughout the play is that Horatio is a static character, actually, one that does not develop. Hamlet, however, is bipolar, displaying moods that are at one moment excited and the other