Who Is Horatio In Hamlet

Horatio is Hamlet’s closest friend. He is loyal to his best friend Hamlet, unlike Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, and he has a good judgment in the play. The biggest weakness for Horatio is he has to dispose all those dead bodies, since almost every character die except for Horatio. He is the only one main character survive in the end of the play.

There are amounts of plots that happen at the end in quick succession of Hamlet. Osric invites Hamlet to fence with Laertes, and Hamlet accepts the duel. Laertes pricks Hamlet with a poison sword. Claudius poisons a cup of wine and hopes to kill Hamlet during the break. Instead, Queen Gertrude takes the poison wine and drinks it quickly. As expected, she dies. After that, Laertes wounds Hamlet with a poisoned blade, then they scuffle and the poisoned sword is swap, and Hamlet wounds Laertes. Laertes asks forgiveness, and he cut by himself with his sword’s blade, and he points out Claudius is responsible for Gertrude’s death, and he dies. Hamlet forced Claudius to drink the rest of the poisoned …show more content…
Only Hamlet's threat that he will have "a wounded name," or bad reputation if Horatio does not live to clear it, convinces Horatio not to join Hamlet in death (Lines 354-362).

Horatio likes Hamlet so much. He sees Hamlet’s death and he offers to commit suicide. He will not to live without his beloved friend. He is resolute his resolution and to die with Hamlet. Horatio is acting controllable emotion but a sense of honour and duty. Horatio refers to himself as "more an antique Roman than a Dane" (V.ii.346)
However, Hamlet says and insists that Horatio should alive to tell the tragic story to people. Horatio promises to put the dead bodies up on a "stage" while he tells Prince Fortinbras and the rest of the world know what went down in Denmark:
HORATIO
And let me speak to the yet unknowing