 Hamlet's last request creates a parallel between the name "Horatio" and the Latin "orator", meaning "speaker".Horatio is present through most of the major scenes of the play, but Hamlet is usually the only person to acknowledge that he is present; when other characters address him (except in Act I Scene 1), they are almost always telling him to leave.He is often in scenes that are usually remembered as soliloquies, such as Hamlet's famous scene with the skull of Yorick.