From the first scene on, Horatio appears as a man of thought, whose actions are guided mainly rational. ... Just before the most tragic point in the drama, this idea finds its highest expression, when he breaks out of his passive pattern: He anticipates the life threatening scenario and warns the Prince, that he "will lose this wager"(5.2.183). ...

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