Examples Of Polonius In Hamlet

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Though out the play Polonius seemed self-absorbed, conniving and overbearing. Throughout the play Polonius was constantly trying to keep tabs on his children Laertes and Ophelia; a clear example was when he gave his son Laertes specific instructions on what to do in Act 1, scene3, lines 59ff, not only his children Polonius tries to spy on everyone around. This is especially true when Polonius sends Reynaldo to spy on Laertes and to spread rumors about him, so that Laertes will confide in Reynaldo, who can then report back to Polonius (2.1.).
Polonius is also all-too willing to use his daughter to get in good terms with the king not in the benefit of her which ends tragically. This is proved when he had convinced his daughter not to see
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At some points in the play, Hamlet doesn't even know if he should live or die because he cannot take the confusion and betrayal happening from everyone around him, his famous line "to be or not to be" gives us an insight that he was thinking about ending his life. From his mom betraying him and marrying his uncle (who supposable killed his dad), to the love of his life leaving him, Hamlet is lost and torn between what he believes and what is really happening. This can be proved by his soliloquy is Act 3, scene 1, lines 64-98. In addition, a very huge debate that Hamlet had was to either take revenge or his father death or not. In Act 4, scene 4, lines 34-68 when Hamlet says one or his soliloquy he is debating whether to listen to his father's ghost which he doesn't fully believe and get revenge for his family, risk his life and possibly lose everything or to believe the rest of the people around him and leave everything as is. Hamlet has his whole life at stake, in addition to already losing people he loves such as his girlfriend Ophelia he can also lose his own life, trying to fight a battle which he is not even certain about, this is the reason he so undeceive about his decisions and always trying to debate right from wrong. In my opinion, Hamlet was also very alone throughout the play, he had no one on his side and many people turning away and back stabbing him, in the outcome he had gone mad and made very poor decisions as a