Mojo, The Bard, & Me

 Today’s Totally Random Line(s)

  

In the same figure, like the king that’s dead.


-Bernardo

Hamlet                                   Act I, Scene i, Line 41

The first scene of Hamlet takes place on the ramparts of the castle at night with a few characters who, other than Horatio, are long forgotten by the end of the play.  But Horatio… If you think about it, Horatio shows up in a lot of key places in the play. He’s here at the beginning seeing the ghost of Hamlet's father, and he’ll be there at the end with his Good night sweet prince, as Hamlet goes to join his father

I guess it would be nice to have a Horatio. But if you think about it, he didn’t really do Hamlet much good. He gave Hamlet someone to talk to, but Hamlet did most of his important talking to himself. Perhaps that was Hamlet’s fatal flaw. Perhaps he should have talked more to Horatio.

There, use that one in your next Hamlet course. What was Hamlet’s fatal flaw? He talked out his most important stuff to himself, when he should have been talking to Horatio. We don’t all have a Horatio. Hamlet had one, and he didn’t talk advantage of it.

I tried to think of a real-life Horatio, but I came up blank; ergo, no pic today.