Hamlets changing character b
Hamlets changing character - bIn Shakespeare's Hamlet, Hamlet's interactions with Horatio, Laertes, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern give the reader a better understanding of Hamlet himself. The changes that occur within Hamlet are revealed through his interactions with these young men. Horatio is Hamlet's loyal friend who throughout he play is on Hamlet's side. Laertes on the other hand is more of an acquaintance of Hamlet, but as the play draws to a close they become enemies. Laertes brings forward a side of Hamlet which acts on impulse instead of thinking everything over in detail. Finally Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are friends with whom Hamlet attended college.. They cause Hamlet to do things that even the reader thinks he would never do. Hamlet's interactions with these people demonstrates how a person can be affected by the personalities and actions of the people around them.
Horatio is the only person in the play who is always on Hamlet's side. In the play some people believe in Hamlet while other don't, but throughout, Horatio is a loyal friend to Hamlet. With the quote,
"A man that Fortune's buffets and rewards
Hast ta'en with equal thanks; and blessed are those
Whose blood and judgement are so well
Commeddled
That they are not ripe for Fortune's finger
To sound what stop she please.",
in Act Three, Scene Two, lines 71-76, Hamlet is describing all of Horatio's qualities which he admires. Hamlet is saying how noble, well to do and down to earth Horatio is. Hamlet admires Horatio's charactor so much because he sees many qualaties in Horario that he, himself, is lacking. Throughout the play Hamlet's charactor undergoes changes and Horatio is the person who keeps Hamlet from going completely insane. In (I.2.97), Horatio says to Hamlet, "My Lord, I think I saw him yesternight.", speaking of Hamlet's father. Since Hamlet's father is dead, Hamlet is baffled until Horatio tells him that it was the ghost of his father. The way in which Hamlet reacts to the news gives the reader a better insight into his charactor. If any other person had told him this, he would have been skeptical but when his friend Horatio informs him of the ghost of his father, he believes it. This demonstrates that Hamlet is a very trusting person. The next piece of evidence in which Hamlet's interacts with Horatio gives the reader better insight into Hamlet's character occurs in (III.2.85-95). In these lines Hamlet asks Horatio to watch the King during the play and to make sure that what he sees is the same thing that Horatio sees. This is important to Hamlet because in order to be certain that he can prove his theories about the King, he needs to have someone else who can back him in what he sees. This is significant to the reader's understanding of...
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