Hamlet is an allegorical hero. He interacts with other characters who reflect his possible options in taking revenge:
- Laertes reflects the limitations of instant revenge
- Fortinbras reflects the limitations of political revenge
- Ophelia reflects the limitations of madness
- Horatio reflects the limitations of talk
From the very first scenes of the play, Horatio establishes himself as a talker. When he first hears of the Ghost, he says:
Of that I shall have also cause to speak,
And from his mouth whose voice will draw on more;
- Horatio doubts the supernatural:
And
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