#hamlet x horatio

[waitingforthesunrise]

no because listen. one of the major themes of hamlet is that the characters have to do the opposite of what they think will complete them, what could tie them to survival. horatio is convinced he can do anything as long as he isn’t alone (he ends the play pulled from the body of the one he loves most. he is not allowed to follow.) ophelia could do anything as long as she’s loved (she looks into hamlet’s cold face and knows the truth. unwanted and unworthy daughter. scream so they can’t make you shut your mouth.) hamlet could do anything if he could just figure out how to be okay on his own (he refuses to hold on to horatio in life, so he clings to him in dying and death. you tried to fight loneliness with chosen isolation. you created the poison and refused to drink the antidote. you were meant for laughter, but not like this.)

#brainrot hours #hamlet #shakespeare #shakes #william shakespere #hamlet prince of denmark #hamlet x horatio

[ghost--bot]

#🤖 #yes i know i took very clear insp from the noir + detective chat memes #but the thought of this was REALLY FUNNY #hamlet #horatio #hamlet x horatio #ophelia #laertes #king claudius #claudius #gertrude #polonius

[shakesqueers13]

Say what you want about the 2023 Shakespeare in The Park production of Hamlet, but the choices made in that play WORKED. Having Hamlet wear a black hoodie and camo pants and him dramatically putting his hood up when he was pissed off was inspired. Having Horatio video tape Claudius on an iPhone camera from the side of the stage during the play within the play was hilarious. Having the play within the play be a hip hop dance number that represented the murder!?! Fantastic. Having Ophelia be a singer before she went mad and having a beautiful voice that everyone loved to listen to and then seeing her singing get worse and worse as she got nearer to death?!?! Hamlet pulling out his iphone after killing Polonius to show his mom a picture of his dad compared to a picture of Claudius and angrily swiping back and forth between the two as he said “What judgement would step from this… to this?” The crowd fucking lost it every time. Horatio singing to Hamlet as he died made me fully sob every time. The way they did the ghost on stage was so chilling and I can’t even accurately describe it, you just had to be there. Hamlet being deeply exasperated the entire time was just perfect. Hamlet and Horatio had a secret handshake. Laertes inexplicably carried an acoustic guitar case for much of the play which was very funny but also hit you with the heartbreaking implication that he had used to play while Ophelia sang and he stopped carrying it after she died. It was peak teenage-angst-hamlet and it was so dear to me. PLEASE if anyone has a recording, send it to me.

#shakespeare #william shakespeare #hamlet #hamlet and horatio #hamlet x horatio #Ophelia #shakespeare shitposting

[sneakertin]

hamlet and horatio being in love for six minutes straight

#i made this in like half an hour #because i love them so much #hamlet 2009 #hamlet #horatio #hamlet x horatio #tragic danish boyfriends #shakespeare #william shakespere #david tennant #peter de jersey #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtqia #bisexual #gay #what the fuck are these tags #hamratio #the dumbest ship name ever #tin's art tag #this IS art #my post

[rorygilmoreh4ter]

hamlet: “my father—methinks i see my father—“

horatio: “where, my lord?”

hamlet: “in my mind's eye, horatio.”

horatio:

#i’m sorry this is so stupid it’s 1am i’ll probably delete it when i wake up LMFAO #hamlet #horatio #shakespeare #william shakespeare #classic literature #hamlet memes #hamlet x horatio #classic literature memes #horatio x hamlet #tragic danish boyfriends #hamratio

[gilmores-glorious-blog]

don’t mind me, just going insane over the fact that in romeo and juliet, written by shakespeare in 1597, romeo chooses to drink poison rather than live in a world without his lover and then in hamlet, written by shakespeare in 1603, horatio tries to drink poison while hamlet is dying so that he won’t have to live without him.

#i’ve connected the two dots. #horatio i know what you are #hamlet #romeo and juliet #shakespeare #hamlet x horatio #horatio #eli.posts

[lemondonutsfromcirclek]

oh my god. if the “your hearing is the last sense to go out before death” thing is true then that means that there’s a chance the last thing hamlet heard was “goodnight, sweet prince,” from horatio and then his hearing went out probably

#hamlet #horatio #hamratio #tragic danish boyfriends #hamlet x horatio #willy shakes #hamlet prince of denmark #its not even a big deal (between sobs) #people probably thought of this already but UGH #goodnight sweet prince

[madebypointlesswords]

If I had a penny for every time a bisexual prince died homoerotically in the arms of his faithful gay lover, saying their last words to them, and the lover wailing over their beloved's death in pure agony as everyone around them is dead, I'd have two pennies. Which isn't much, but it's weird that it happened twice.

#they were husbands your honour #if you knew who I was talking about without checking the tags #heres a golden medal #congratulations #you have the same hyperfixations as me #ill let you decide if you take it as a compliment or not #this better reach its target audience or i will cry #merthur #bbc merlin #merlin x arthur #merlin #hamlet x horatio #hamlet #shakespeare #tragic danish boyfriends #horatio #if someone knows Hamlet and Horatio's ship name pls tell me btw

[good-night-my-sweet-prince]

thinking about andré tchaikowsky, my sweet little shakespeare-obsessed gay, who just wanted be a part the shakespearean tradition even from beyond the grave, who donated his own skull in to theatre to cement his connection to art, his death only marking his transition from artist to art

and thinking about his skull being finally used after over two decades in THAT 2008 rsc production of hamlet

and thinking about THAT MOMENT from the film version in which hamlet says the line here hung those lips that I have kiss'd I know not how oft and horatio, like the sweet little gay that he is, looks at hamlet the very moment he utters the word kiss'd

andré, this is all you ever wanted and MORE

#shakespeare #william shakespeare #willy shakes #hamlet #horatio #hamlet x horatio #andré tchaikowsky #hamlet 2009 #david tennant #peter de jersey

[thehamletdiaries]

Alright, I made the quiz; I made it in a semi-lazy way so you just get to find out what character I think you are in an, of course, in an amazingly scientific way, but that's really all it is. It's also just the "younger generation", so - Hamlet, Horatio, Ophelia, Rosencrantz, Guildenstern, Laertes and Fortinbras.

Anyway, enjoy!

#hamlet #shakespeare #hamlet x horatio #hamlet/horatio #tragic danish boyfriends #ophelia #hamlet x ophelia #laertes #rosencrantz and guildenstern #rosencrantz #guildenstern #fortinbras

[transjudas]

doomed gay intertextuality

#destiel meme #shakespeare #hamlet #hamlet x horatio

[heyitsspaceace]

i want you all to know that for my COLLEGE FINAL PAPER FOR MY DRAMA THEATER AND THEORY CLASS i wrote a seven (7) page paper on hamlet, and 3 (three) of those seven pages were dedicated to a queer interpretation of hamlet and what you gain from reading hamlet and horatio as gay and in love

#i LOVE THIS PLAY #so so SO MUCH #shakespeare #willy shakes #william shakespere #hamlet #horatio #hamratio #tragic danish boyfriends #hamlet x horatio

[shakesqueers13]

I heard Ethan Hawke talk about his interpretation of Hamlet, and something he said is that at heart, Hamlet is just a kid who wants to make his dad proud. He said that in the scene where his father's ghost appears, Hamlet is more surprised that his father chose him to appear to than that his father's ghost is there at all. He said that the way he sees it, Hamlet's father never had time for him in life, and that when Hamlet's dad gives him this task, it's Hamlet's last chance to make his father proud of him, and that's why he tries so, so very hard to do right by his father's memory.

And I LOVE that interpretation. It adds SO much to Hamlet's character. It's crazy to think that Hamlet is used to being ignored and left to his own devices by his family, so even from the very start when Gertrude and Claudio take an interest in him in the beginning of the play, he's surprised that they even noticed he was sulking.

Hamlet's parents don't know him. They never bothered to know him until they needed him. His misery puzzles and annoys Gertrude. She doesn't understand why he can't just be happy, and normal, but at the same time, she only makes time for him when she needs something from him, or when his actions threaten her own happiness.

And this adds crazy layers to Hamlet's relationship with Ophelia and Polonius. I think someone could easily argue that the fundamental difference between Hamlet and Leartes is a loving father; Hamlet sees the way Polonius cares for his children, and is offended by the false way Polonius tries to be kind to him. He wants that kind of father, but he knows he can't have it.

Hamlet sees right through everyone's ulterior motivations in the play because he's used to them ignoring him and he doesn't trust the sudden rush of attention towards him. He isn't surprised that people are lying to him; he knows they wouldn't be this concerned about him without an ulterior motive.

The only person he does truly trust is Horatio, who has always been his friend and confidant. Horatio is probably the only person in the play who doesn't change after Hamlet's father dies.

So basically, I think if you view Hamlet as a young man only barely entering adulthood, who spent his entire childhood feeling like he was letting his father down and only wanting to win his affection, it's a different, better play. Hamlet isn't a good person or a bad person, he's a kid at a crossroads, and he feels like the only way he can prove himself as a man and give his life meaning is by making his dad proud of him. When his father died, Hamlet likely thought he had lost the chance to ever bond with his dad, but now, he's gotten one last chance. So of COURSE he clings to it. Of course he descends into a terrified, paranoid spiral of wrongdoings and mistakes. He wants his dad back, and he wants his dad to love him. He got a task, and he's damn well going to do it, even if it kills him.

And the real tragedy in it all is that he fails. Hamlet's father begs Hamlet to remember him, and with Hamlet's death (and those of everyone around him) the memory of his father is lost, beyond the trivial knowledge that he existed. At the end of the play, there is no one left to remember who Hamlet senior truly was. In this way, Hamlet fails to carry out his father's last wishes, and dies knowing that everyone was right about him, he couldn't prove himself, he couldn't make his dad proud.

However, left behind is Horatio, the only person who ever cared about Hamlet beyond the scope of his father, and his depression, and his desperation for revenge. And in this way, Hamlet is remembered properly, even if his father is not.

#hamlet #shakespeare #william shakespeare #hamlet x horatio #hamlet 2000 #ethan hawke #academia #dark academia #if we were villains #the bard

[flipyeahaudge]

reading hamlet in lit, and i love horatio and hamlets relationship, hamlet is so weird and off putting but horatio is so fuckin down for it

hamlet: the ghost told me to kill my uncle dad so i'm gonna.

horatio: weird, you'll still let me hit tho?

hamlet: yea.

horatio: cool, go for it.

#hamlet #william shakespere #hamlet x horatio

[rorygilmoreh4ter]

watching horatio, the sensible—NOT PASSION’S SLAVE—lose all sensibility as he picks up the cup of poison, knowing suicide will eternally condemn him to hell.

horatio would rather be banished to hell forever than live on earth after hamlet's death.

#i hate them so much like actually #hamlet #horatio #william shakespeare #shakespeare #tragic danish boyfriends #hamratio #classic literature #the tragedy of hamlet #hamlet x horatio #horatio x hamlet #hamlet prince of denmark

[yunmengslotuspond]

If Horatio died before Hamlet

Would he still grieve or become like Achilles?

#hamlet x horatio #hamartio #tragic danish boyfriends #tragedy #hamlet #achilles #patrochilles #patroclus #tragic greek boyfriends #greek mythology #gay #queer #literature memes #classic #shakespeare #willy shakes