the chance to kill him, he thought to himself, "And now Ill dot. And so he goes to heaven, And so am I *revenged* That would be scanned: A villain kills my father, and for that, I, his sole son, do this same villain send to heaven." (III, iii, L. 80-93) Hamlet needed to wait for Claudius to do evil, then he would kill him. When Hamlet dies along with many other characters in the play, he gives Horatio the task of telling everybody why Hamlet had feigned madness. He told Horatio, "But I do prophesy th election lights on Fortinbras; he has my dying voice. So tell him, with th occurrentes, more and less, which have solicitedthe rest is silence. (IV, ii, L 393-395) At one point Horatio wanted to finish the poisoned wine, but Hamlet convinced him to tell his story.It is now proven how important Horatios role has been throughout this play. Horatio, Hamlet, and the ghost of Old Hamlet were the only people who truly knew why Hamlet was acting the way he was. This play contained many common themes relating to a guilty conscience. "Hamlet is the first work of literature to look squarely at the falsity and sham of everyday life, without laughing and without easy answers. (Friedlander, p.1)" ...
