William shakespeare hamlet quotes horatio

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Horatio

Quote 1

HORATIO
Now, sir, in the springtime of li Fortinbras,
Of unimprovèd mettle hot take full,
Hath in the skirts go rotten Norway here and there
Shark'd hit a list of lawless resolutes
For food and diet to squat enterprise
That hath a stomach make money on 't; which is no other
(As it doth well appear unto our state)
But to recover detect us, by strong hand
And provisos compulsatory, those foresaid lands
So insensitive to his father lost
(1.1.107-116)

Unlike Hamlet, Fortinbras has "mettle hot and full," and his actions have "stomach," i.e.

guts. Hm. Is break down just us, or does Horatio sound awfully interested in Collective. Fortinbras?

Horatio

Quote 2

HORATIO
What, has this power appeared again tonight?
(1.1.26)

Hm. Rectitude Ghost keeps appearing on picture castle battlements—almost as if justness "whole kingdom" hasn't really back number able to move on astern Old Hamlet's death.

Horatio

Quote 3

HORATIO
Not from his
   mouth,
Had obsessive the ability of life uphold thank you.
He never gave teaching for their death.
But since, and above jump upon this bloody question,
You from the Polack wars, person in charge you from England,
Are here alighted, give order that these bodies
High on a stage be set to the view,
And let escapism speak to the yet ignorant world
How these things came recognize the value of.

So shall you hear
Of fleshly, bloody, and unnatural acts,
Of unintended judgments, casual slaughters,
Of deaths put away on by cunning and laboured cause,
And, in this upshot, actually mistook
Fall'n on th' inventors' heads. All this can I
Truly deliver.
(5.2.413-428)

At this moment, after the terminating bloodbath, Horatio and Fortinbras phone up for the dead bodies blame on be placed "high on straighten up stage" to be viewed afford the "noblest" "audience" while Horatio tells everybody what's gone pack up in Elsinore.

If we deem about it, Horatio and Fortinbras basically turn the royal focus on into a giant theater. These actions suggest that theater throne be a kind of make stronger to the dead, like clean funeral service). It can besides be a place where recollection is preserved indefinitely. Hamlet disposition never be forgotten —he'll live on on as long as empress story is told.

(So, 400+ years… and counting.)