FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
PLAY BY SAKESPEAR
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Hamlet
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Claudius
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Horatio
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Gertrude
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Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -An ambassador from England arrives on the scene to bluntly report “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead” (Hamlet. Act V, Scene II, line 411); they join the stabbed, poisoned and drowned key characters. By the end of Hamlet, Horatio is the only main figure left alive.
Detailed explanation-3: -At the end of the play, Hamlet asks Horatio to not commit suicide, but rather continue to live so he may tell Hamlet’s tale.
Detailed explanation-4: -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-5: -Hamlet tells horatio to let his story live because he knows that he is about to die and his story is one that can be related to. I believe Hamlet asks Horatio to tell his story because he wants people to know the real story. He wants a legacy of him especially to be left behind, and he doesn’t want to be forgotten.