FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
HAMLET
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Hamlet
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Horatio
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Gertrude
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Claudius
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Detailed explanation-1: -The only central character left alive at the end of the play is Horatio and Hamlet asks him, as he dies, to ‘tell my story’. Why do you think Shakespeare leaves Horatio alive?
Detailed explanation-2: -Hamlet’s central characters are Hamlet himself, Claudius, Gertrude, Ophelia, Polonius, Laertes, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, and Horatio. But only Horatio survives when the curtain falls at the end of Shakespeare’s play.
Detailed explanation-3: -At the end of the play, when Hamlet is killed in his fight with Laertes, Horatio, in his grief, offers to kill himself with his own sword.
Detailed explanation-4: -By the end of Hamlet, the only major character left alive is Horatio.
Detailed explanation-5: -Horatio is a variation of the Latin Horatius. Many commentators have linked the name to the Latin words ratiō ("reason") and ōrātor ("speaker"), noting his role as a reasoner with Prince Hamlet, and surviving (even though he begged for death) to tell Hamlet’s heroic tale at the end of the play.