Hamlet - Act 2 Scene 1
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- Hamlet - Act 2 Scene 1
- "Inquire me first what Danskers are in Paris"
- Polonius is spying on his son
- Appears manipulative and irrational
- The scene interrupts the action of the play, delaying Hamlets actions further
- Distrust - father and son relationships
- The politics extend into the family
- Polonius is spying on his son
- "Ay, or drinking, fencing, swearing, quarrelling, drabbing - you may go so far"
- The normality and expected actions of men
- Double standard
- The normality and expected actions of men
- The scene underlines the sense of double standard of expectations for men and women
- Polonius presnts a double standard for Laertes and Ophelia
- "By indirections find directions out"
- Reflects Hamlets indirect acts of revenge
- Truth is found through surveillance
- "Pale as his shirt, he knees knocking eachother... loosed out of hell"
- Hamlet's state ironically looks like he has seen a ghost reference to supernatural
- Shows Hamlet as mad from courtly love
- Chosing a woman out of his league
- Polonius appears to be a fool as he dismisses the ghostly indicators, and leaves it up to love
- "And with his other hand thus o'er his brow"
- A mockery of a lovers goodbye
- Tragic
- Dramatic - smoke screen around his behaviour?
- A mockery of a lovers goodbye
- "I did repel his letters, and denied his access to me"
- Reflection is reminiscient of courtly love
- Demanded too by Polonius
- "What, have you given him any hard words of late?"
- "Come, go we to the King. This must be known, which being kept close, might move more grief to hide than hate to utter love. Come."
- Regret after the fact - Polonius has his own sense of delay in guilt
- "beshrew my jealousy "
- Fears for Hamlet
- "Inquire me first what Danskers are in Paris"
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