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I need to know who Hamlet really trusts. Who is loyal to Hamlet?

Hamlet really trusts Horatio and no one else. And Horatio is completely loyal to Hamlet. Hamlet confides everything to Horatio. Horatio is the only one to whom Hamlet has confided the substance of his meeting with the Ghost on the battlements and who knows that Claudius murdered Hamlet's father to seize the throne. In one scene Hamlet expresses his confidence in Horatio.


Horatio, thou art e'en as just a man
As e'er my conversation cop'd withal.
....................................................
Nay, do not think I flatter;
For what advancement may I hope from thee,
That no revenue hast but thy good spirits
To feed and clothe thee? Why should the poor be flatter'd?
No, let the candied tongue lick absurd pomp,
And crook the pregnant hinges of the knee
Where thrift may follow fawning. Dost thou hear?
Since my dear soul was mistress of her choice,
And could of men distinguish her election,
Sh'hath seal'd thee for herself. For thou hast been
As one, in suff'ring all, that suffers nothing;
A man that Fortune's buffets and rewards
Hast ta'en with equal thanks; and blest are those
Whose blood and judgment are so well commeddled
That they are not a pipe for Fortune's finger
To sound what stop she please. 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.       (Act III, Scene 2)



Hamlet expresses these sentiments to Horatio just before asking him to help observe the King during the course of the play-within-a-play. Hamlet wants to have a witness to verify his own observations of Claudius when it comes to the place where the actor playing the villain pours poison in the ear of the actor playing the sleeping King. It turns out that Hamlet hardly needs a witness, since Claudius makes such a scene that he brings the play-within-a-play to a halt as he flees the room. Horatio is convinced that the Ghost who appeared to Hamlet on the battlements was indeed the ghost of Hamlet's father and was telling him the exact truth.


Horatio acts like a true friend to Hamlet throughout the remainder of the play, and he proves his complete loyalty when he endeavors to commit suicide and join Hamlet in death at the very end. But Hamlet wrests the poisoned goblet out of his friend's hand and asks him to "absent himself from felicity" for a while in order to tell his story to the members of the court. Horatio is necessary for this function, since he is the only person still alive who knows the whole truth. Without him, everyone in the Danish court would assume that Hamlet had committed a wilful murder in an attempt to usurp the throne from Claudius. Horatio could not have been more loyal to Hamlet.

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