Dec 17, 2009

Hamlet | Character Analysis of Horatio

R. Moore discusses in-depth the character of Horatio, his role in the play, and his nature in contrast to Hamlet and the other characters in the play.

Shakespeare’s Hamlet is dominated by the complex, absorbing character of its primary figure, that being the young prince Hamlet. There is scarcely a single scene in the play in which Hamlet does not greatly determine the course of the action either by his forceful presence or, in his absence, by the preoccupation of Claudius and his cohorts as they plot to remove Hamlet as the major obstacle blocking the functioning of their regime. Keeping this fact in mind one must be exceedingly careful not to neglect the importance of the other characters, both principal and minor, in the...