olar, a man of thought and intellect. Fortinbras the soldier, a man of action and pride. Horatio is the scholar who sees the world through the eyes of a scholar. Views things with cool and logical manner. Everyone recognizes this. When the ghost appeared before him and the other men, they urge him to talk to the ghost. In this there is double plot as it asserts Horatio's intelligence and it proves that Hamlet is not just seeing things. Even Hamlet acknowledges his objectiveness by confiding in him and charging him to reveal the truth at the end of the play. “There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.”Fortinbras is the soldier, than man of action whom acts without thought to the consequences. He did not realize the consequences of invading Denmark until his Uncle reign him in. “we have to writ to Norway, uncle of young Fortinbras—Who impotent and bed-rid, scarcely hears of his nephew's purpose to suppress his further gait”. Hamlet also sees then upon crossing paths with Fortinbras’s army en route to battle of a small piece of land. “The imminent death of twenty thousand men, that for a fantasy and trick of fame”. Hamlet sees Fortinbras reactions as rash, letting men die for his own pride and fame, but he also acknowledges the virtue of action.A tragedy from Hamlet is that he is of both these traits, he is a man of thought and a man of action. It is his thoughts that hinder his purpose of revenge "thus conscious does make cowards of us all”, and his action with thought that cause him trouble with the murder of Polonious which Hamlet’s mother comments “ O’ what a rash and bloody deed this is!”. When trying to use but one of these noble traits he still stumbles in his attempts of revenge so much so, the ghost has to return to spur him on.” This visitation is but to whet thy almost blunted purpose”.In the...
