William Shakespeare’s, “Hamlet”, has a character, Polonius, who from a daughter’s point of view is extremely dislikeable. Polonius was a father of two and the councilor to Claudius, King of Denmark. Claudius wanted to know if Hamlet was mentally disturbed or plotting revenge. Polonius thought Hamlet’s problem may have been love sickness for his daughter, Ophelia. Striving to gain the king’s favor, he eagerly offers Claudius a plan: manipulating and using his own daughter to entice Hamlet and confirming whether or not his madness was a result of “love sickness”. Trying to gain King Claudius’s favor in this fashion does not make sense. Why, when there are so many other methods, would a father willingly choose to risk his very own daughter?
