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Hamlet
The different characters with various characteristics make the play with more color and plots. In the play there are several foils exist within the characters which are interesting to look into. Hamlet and Horatio, Hamlet and Fortinbras, Hamlet and Claudius and Hamlet and Laertes are all have more or less some qualities that are opposite.
Compare to Hamlet’s irrational action Horatio is more rational which can be shown in act1 scene4, where Horatio stops Hamlet to go deeply into the forest. “Why, what should be the fear? I do not set my life in a pin’s fee,”(1,4,67-68) definitely Hamlet is a brave man as he is not dear any circumstances. However, he is not considering anything else. On another hand, Horatio is more clear mind as he says, ”be ruled. You shall not go”(1,4,85) it’s not that he is coward or frighten(although he might be) but he has considered it clearly that Hamlet might be in danger after all.
Different form Horatio whose meaning for Hamlet is......

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