someone yell for help and kills it without knowing that it was Polonius:Queen: What wilt thou do? Thou wilt not murder me?Polonius: What ho! Help!Hamlet: How now, a rat? Dead for a ducat, dead. Polonius: O, I am slain!Hamlet: Thou wretched, rash, intruding fool, farewell. I took thee for thy better. Take thy fortune. Thou find’st to be too busy is some danger (III.iv.26-30, 38-40).Shakespeare’s ideal person is Horatio. In the beginning of the play, Horatio, when he sees the ghost decides to tell Hamlet: “So have I heard and do in part believe it…Break we our watch up, and by my advice let us impart what we have seen tonight unto young Hamlet…”(I.i.180-185). Horatio is ruled by reason and Hamlet recognizes and comments on this: “Give me that man that is not passion’s slave, and I will wear him in my heart’s core, ay, in my heart of heart, as I do thee”(III.ii.76-79).. Horatio does not have a fatal flaw and does not die. Shakespeare gives his main characters flaws that destroy their lives. The King, Queen, Hamlet, Ophelia, and Polonius all have flaws and die in the end, but Horatio, Shakespeare’s ideal character, does not have a fatal flaw and lives....
