Hamlet

hamlet is a rude, disrespectful and vengeful prince. he's represented as a pitiful person at the start of the play but slowly is turned into a mad person who does anything to avenge his dead father.

his relationships with other characters are different all around as he is the lover of ophelia, the stepson of claudius, son of gertrude and good freind of horatio.

his revenge leads into his death as when in a duel with horatio he gets knicked with a poisoned blade and slowly surcumms to the poison.

Horatio

Throughout the play, Horatio is portrayed as a very rational individual, as he shows his loyalty and honesty by staying by his side through the whole play and showing his rational thinking by not believing in the sight of Hamlet's father until seen.

Horatio in the play is considered a stable foundation to help Hamlet overcome his madness. This correlates to how he is a rational thinker.

Till the end, Horatio continued to have a good relationship with Hamlet. Also he had a decent friendship with the queen. He did not like Claudius as he was aware of Claudius killing King Hamlet (Hamlet’s father)

Horatio played a big part in the play by making the reader be able to understand that Hamlet had been faking his madness. Some ways this was shown is how Horatio spoke after Hamlet’s soliloquies, and was able to see the ghost.

“The wise man” is the archetype that Horatio is shown as.

Ophilia

She was innocent throughout the play was used by people for example used by hamley to prove he was mad

She represents the theme madness becuse she went mad after her farther died.

because she thought she had no one.

ophelia doesnt talk alot of charecters she only talkes to hamlet, her farther and acts likr there slave

Laetres

Laertes in Hamlet has multiple branches in his personality, his character traits are those of a dutiful son who is brave, honest and devoted to his family. Laertes in the play is also seen as impulsive and chauvinistic which affects him after in the play.

In the play Laertes' sister (Ophelia) and his father (Polonius) are unfortunately led to death. Both of these events are instigated by none other than Hamlet. Due to this, Laertes has a crazy urge to avenge his sister and father.

As mentioned, Laertes is blood related to Polonius and Ophelia (His father and sister). He also has a really good relationship with the king and queen.

Laertes is killed by Hamlet in the play when he was wounded by a poisoned blade in the midst of the battle. This shows how far he went to avenge his father and sister.

Laertes is displayed as the doppelganger archetype in the play. This is because he is the only one in the same sort of situation as Hamlet as they both have lost a part of their family and they have both gone crazy.

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