Hamlet+5.2

3. Hamlet - Why do you seem to trust Horatio more than anyone else? You tell Horatio of how you dislike Rosencrantz and Guildenstern because they betrayed you by listening to Claudius and helping Claudius devise a plan to eventually kill you by shipping you off to England. Are you really being honest with Horatio or are you using him to be honest with yourself? I think you are confnused on who to trust since you do not know who trusts you or who is going to be loyal to you. Like, Queen Gertrude, before she chose to be more loyal to her husband, Claudius, then she chose to be loyal to you her son.

2. I find it funny and also ironic that the innocent in this scene die. That was my first reaction, but then I thought: who is innocent? Is anyone innocent, or has everyone formed alliances with other people? People have also chosen to be loyal to some and not to others. Although Claudius attempts to poison Hamlet, his own wife, Gertrude accidently drinks from the poisoned cup killing herself. While Laertes and Hamlet are fighting, Laertes first wounds Hamlet with a poisoned fencing stick. However, Hamlet than wounds Laertes with his poisoned fencing stick. I imagine Claudius cackling to himself over how he can finally rule Denmark the way he planned from the beginning until Hamlet kills Claudius.

7. Horatio - I think that everyone is crazy. Everyone lies to one another in order to get on everyone's good side. I am so glad I am not involved in any of this drama. Everyone seems to be hypocrites as well. Claudius wants to kill Hamlet because Hamlet is a murderer, but is that not what Claudius is? I think that the rules and expectations should be the same for everyone. Heck, I am the true innocent one, let me be King.