Throughout our entire lives we are taught many different ideas or themes designed to help us advance. These themes are told to us by people who truly care about us, teaching us how to live our lives to the best of our abilities. Someone who knew a lot about themes of life is the late and great William Shakespeare, Shakespeare is known as the greatest writer of all times and has many different pieces of literature that teach many important themes. The themes that Shakespeare put in his writing are there for the readers to understand and even learn in order to make the viewer a more educated person. All of Shakespeare’s plays and poems have themes in them to learn from, but one play in particular is Hamlet. Hamlet is a play about murder, revenge,
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This is presented to us by the character of Polonius while telling his daughter the proper way to fool someone so she can do so to Hamlet himself. Polonius is asking his daughter Ophelia to fool Hamlet in order to see if he is pretending to be insane or in all actuality is insane. We see this in act three scene one lines 49-55; “Ophelia, walk you here. Gracious, so please you, we will bestow ourselves. Read on this book, that show of such an exercise may colour your loneliness. We are oft to blane in this, ‘Tis too much proved, that with devotion’s visage and pious action we do sugar o’er the devil himself.” Polonius is arguing that the only things that you really need to fool someone is a face that makes you look nice and actions that make you seem like a really good person. If you really think about this you will realize that this I probably true because we are always very easy to trust people who act and seem nice and innocent. If someone were to come up to me and act like a total jerk I would be less likely to do something or belie something they say, rather than if they were totally nice and a Noble Piece Price winner, as I believe most would
This is presented to us by the character of Polonius while telling his daughter the proper way to fool someone so she can do so to Hamlet himself. Polonius is asking his daughter Ophelia to fool Hamlet in order to see if he is pretending to be insane or in all actuality is insane. We see this in act three scene one lines 49-55; “Ophelia, walk you here. Gracious, so please you, we will bestow ourselves. Read on this book, that show of such an exercise may colour your loneliness. We are oft to blane in this, ‘Tis too much proved, that with devotion’s visage and pious action we do sugar o’er the devil himself.” Polonius is arguing that the only things that you really need to fool someone is a face that makes you look nice and actions that make you seem like a really good person. If you really think about this you will realize that this I probably true because we are always very easy to trust people who act and seem nice and innocent. If someone were to come up to me and act like a total jerk I would be less likely to do something or belie something they say, rather than if they were totally nice and a Noble Piece Price winner, as I believe most would