Polonius

Gender inequality is a key issue within Hamlet as both Gertrude and Ophelia, the main females of Shakespeare’s play, are portrayed as dependent, submissive, and weak. This is done in order for Shakespeare to express his opinion that women of the Elizabethan period in which he lived in were required, without any choice, to be dependent on men, submissive, and not powerful as the era “treated women as objects” (Lopez, 1). To begin, Shakespeare shows the characterization of women through Gertrude…

is knows as “Ophelia’s mad scene” because it is in this scene where suddenly begins to go mad. In the scene, she speaks about her father’s death and how he lays in the cold ground. As learned earlier in the play, Hamlet killed Ophelia’s father, Polonius, with the intention of killing his own Uncle. Instead he takes the life of one of the most important people in Ophelia’s life. Hamlet also promises Ophelia his hand in marriage and his utmost love, but she rethinks her relationship with him and…

Hamlet Quote Explications – Act 4 Theme: Is Life Worth Living? “If his chief good and market of his time/ Be but to sleep and feed?” (IV, iv) On the way to the ship to take him to England, Hamlet discovers Fortinbras and performs this soliloquy. Despite Hamlet’s madness, Rosencranz and Guildenstern provide Hamlet with alone time reflect on his own life in comparison to Fortinbras. Unlike Hamlet, Fortinbras has found meaning in his life and maintained his reputation. This outburst of emotion…

106), Hamlet enters Ophelia’s room in a state of madness and acts “as if he had been loosed out of hell” (2.1.81). Reacting this way after being rejected by Ophelia conveys the idea that his love for her has driven him to this state of madness. As Polonius, the king’s attendant, receives word of his irrational behavior, he acknowledges that love “afflicts our natures” (2.1.104) and attributes this as what what “hath made him (Hamlet) mad” (1.5.109). The belief that Ophelia’s rejection drove him…

themselves above morality, and use deceit and craft to maintain authority and power. Shakespeare uses the dramatic irony of Polonius’ advice, a conniving character notorious for eavesdropping, “to thine own self be true” to introduce the idea that most characters in the play hide their true intentions. Polonius’ advice is ironic as few characters in the play, including Polonius reveal their true selves, choosing instead to hide their intentions to maintain power. This duplicitous nature of man…

must be cruel, only to be kind; thus bad begins and worse remains behind.” (III, iv, RECHECK) foreshadows what’s to come; Hamlet “catches the conscience of the king” and his eagerness to kill the king gets the best of him and he mistakenly kills Polonius instead. At the end of the act, the reader wonders when Hamlet will kill the king or if his internal conflicts will lead to his…

which is to get revenge for the kingdom overtaken by an authority figure who did not earn that title, honor his father’s legacy that is took from him in the crossfire of jealousy, and for the good of Denmark. Between the murder of King Hamlet and Polonius, Ophelia’s death, and the disloyalty of many characters, we enable ourselves to see the mood of confusion being created, but what seems to be chaos is actually meticulous fate. This in part creates a tone of Lindsey, 2 apprehension throughout…

Throughout Shakespeare's play, Hamlet, multiple characters descend into a state of madness. Many hindrances and traumatic experiences cause Hamlet to reach this state of unbalanced psyche. This inner turmoil drives Hamlet to action and lets him make sense of his emotions. No longer caring to maintain the social norms, Hamlet is able to follow his true desires and enact them. Therefore, he becomes progressively outspoken as the story continues. Emily Dickinson stated “Much madness is divinest…

Polonius, with his inflated ego, stood boldly in front of Claudius and Gertrude and began to read, arrogantly, a letter, written by the dead king’s son, Hamlet to Polonius’s daughter, Ophelia. In the story, Hamlet, written by William Shakespeare, Hamlet wrote his deepest love to Ophelia in a letter. Throughout the story, he may have not shown his love but deep inside he did. Hamlet obviously loved Ophelia with all his heart. Hamlet wrote a letter expressing his undying love for Ophelia even if…

in his own country under the surveillance of Claudius (act II sc 2) "Denmark is a prison". This idea of surveillance is taken up as well in act III sc1. The man cannot act freely because he is spied on by Polonius and Claudis : "I hear him coming; let's withdraw, my lord. " Claudius and polonius hide behind the arras. Enter hamlet . Hamlet is chained and has to adapt to his environment with keeping his goal straight in front of him We can conclude that Hamlet knows that they have company since…