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How Does Shakespeare Show Horatio's Loyalty

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In Hamlet, a play written by Shakespeare, Shakespeare conveys many lessons through the actions of the characters throughout the play without directly talking about them. One of the characters that Shakespeare uses repeatedly throughout the whole play is Horatio, Hamlet's best friend. Horatio is loyal and is really the only person Hamlet can completely trust in his hectic life. Horatio is an exemplary guy and he has no ulterior motive unlike Rosencrantz and Guildenstern and their plan to spy on Hamlet to see if he is actually going crazy or if it is all just a scheme. Then you also have Polonius who is supposed to be a person who Hamlet can confide in but really Polonius too betrays Hamlet and spys on him to see if he has any suspicions of his father's murder. Horatio is the only character who stays respected through the entirety of the play. Shakespeare undeniably believes living a righteous life benefits people who are powerfully respected. He shows this best by killing all of the main …show more content…

In faith, My lord, not I. (1.5.150-160) The interaction between Hamlet and Horatio continues and Hamlet wants Horatio to swear upon his sword that he will not say anything about what he saw tonight. Horatio being the loyal friend he is does everything Hamlet asks even if he thinks it is unnecessary and crazy. Hamlet finds himself always having to watch his back throughout the play. Hamlet's mother Gertrude and the King plan to have two of Hamlet's friends, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, from school spy on him and see if he is actually going crazy. Hamlet knows the whole time that his “friends” are working for Claudius. They threw away their friendship with Hamlet just to secure some coin from the King. Later on in the play it is found out that Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead and its is to be interpreted that they were killed by the King Claudius. Shakespeare used Rosencrantz and Guildenstern deaths to show that there is nothing to gain from betraying your

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