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What do the king and polonius decide about Hamlet's condition after eavesdropping on Hamlet and Ophelia?
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∙ 13y ago
Polonius believes that Hamlet is acting strangely because he is in love with his daughter, Ophelia. Polonius had earlier instructed Ophelia to cut off contact with Hamlet and that is what Polonius thinks is making Hamlet mad.
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∙ 14y ago
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∙ 13y agoDifferent things. Claudius is convinced that Hamlet is not mad and that he should be sent to England to get him out of the country, and maybe to allow him to work through whatever is bothering him. The king says "Love? His affections do not that way tend. . . There is something in his soul o'er which his melancholy sits on brood and I do doubt that the hatch and disclose will be some danger." On the basis of what he has seen he doesn't think Hamlet is crazy for love. He doesn't think he is crazy even. There's something else on which his mind sits on brood. Hamlet is brooding about something else, and Claudius suspects that whatever it is, it's dangerous.
Polonius, because he is one of those people whose vanity will never allow them to say they are wrong, insists, as much as he can without insulting the king by saying "You're wrong", that Hamlet is crazy and it's because he loves Ophelia. The evidence of what he has seen in the previous scene cannot make him shift his opinion.
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∙ 12y agoPolonius only ever has one plan to reveal the source of Hamlet's behaviour: spy on him. He has Ophelia talk to him while he and Claudius lurk behind the arras. When Claudius finds that the results of this experiment do not justify Polonius's hypothesis, Polonius says he has a totally new plan: he will have Gertrude talk to Hamlet while Polonius lurks behind the arras.
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∙ 6y agoBy eavesdropping and spying on him. They call his old school buddies Rosencrantz and Guildenstern to Elsinore as spies, but Hamlet immediately susses them out. They set Ophelia up in a hallway, and they are hiding behind the tapestries waiting to listen in on their private conversation. Polonius is convinced that Hamlet's behaviour is caused by unrequited love, and such an interview should demonstrate this. However, after the eavesdropping Claudius is not convinced. "Love? His thoughts do not that way tend." Finally, they set Polonius up behind the curtain in Gertrude's bedroom and set up a further meeting, with more eavesdropping.
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∙ 7y agoThey decide that he is crazy in love with her and cannot think clearly because she sent him back all his stuff like Polonius told her too.
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∙ 13y agoPolonius has decided that Hamlet's madness is dervived from Ophelia denying his letters.
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∙ 13y ago"I doubt it is no other than the main: his father's death and our o'erhasty marriage." Gertrude has a habit of hitting the nail squarely on the head.
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∙ 7y agoPolonius thinks that Hamlet's behaviour comes from his thwarted love of Ophelia. Ophelia does not express an opinion on the subject.
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Was Ophelia hamlets girlfriend or wife?
Hamlet was her boyfriend. Polonius was her father. Laertes was her brother. Claudius was her father's employer and her boyfriend's father. Gertrude seems to have been a bit of a surrogate mother to Ophelia.
What does Polonius suggest after Hamlet and Ophelia see one another in act two scene two?
In Act 3 scene 1 of Hamlet (the "nunnery" scene), Claudius and Polonius eavesdrop on the conversation between Hamlet and Ophelia. Well, it's sort of eavesdropping since Ophelia knows they are there and if Hamlet does not know at the beginning of the conversation, he figures it out pretty quickly.
What is polonius theory about Hamlets behavior?
Polonius is a character, not a theme. And what tells us about the characters in the play is 1. What they do, 2. What they say about themselves and 3. What others say about them, in that order.
How is hamlet acting according to Ophelia?
If you are referring to The Lobby Scene, he knows that Claudius and Polonius are eavesdropping on them from behind the arras.
What cause does Polonius give for Hamlets madness?
Polonius is sure that Hamlet has gone mad with love for Ophelia. See these lines by Polonius in Act 2 scene 1: ~Polonius: Come, go with me! I will go seek the King;This is the very ecstasy of love,...Ophelia: ... I did repel his letters, and denied His access to me.Polonius: That hath made him mad;~ So Polonius thinks Hamlet is suffering from the "ecstasy of love" for Ophelia, which has driven him mad.
Was Ophelia hamlets girlfriend or wife?
Hamlet was her boyfriend. Polonius was her father. Laertes was her brother. Claudius was her father's employer and her boyfriend's father. Gertrude seems to have been a bit of a surrogate mother to Ophelia.
What is polonius ' plan for testing his theory that Hamlet is love-crazy?
He plans to get Hamlet to talk to Ophelia, while he and Claudius are eavesdropping.
What does Polonius suggest after Hamlet and Ophelia see one another in act two scene two?
In Act 3 scene 1 of Hamlet (the "nunnery" scene), Claudius and Polonius eavesdrop on the conversation between Hamlet and Ophelia. Well, it's sort of eavesdropping since Ophelia knows they are there and if Hamlet does not know at the beginning of the conversation, he figures it out pretty quickly.
What is polonius theory about Hamlets behavior?
Polonius is a character, not a theme. And what tells us about the characters in the play is 1. What they do, 2. What they say about themselves and 3. What others say about them, in that order.
How is hamlet acting according to Ophelia?
If you are referring to The Lobby Scene, he knows that Claudius and Polonius are eavesdropping on them from behind the arras.
What cause does Polonius give for Hamlets madness?
Polonius is sure that Hamlet has gone mad with love for Ophelia. See these lines by Polonius in Act 2 scene 1: ~Polonius: Come, go with me! I will go seek the King;This is the very ecstasy of love,...Ophelia: ... I did repel his letters, and denied His access to me.Polonius: That hath made him mad;~ So Polonius thinks Hamlet is suffering from the "ecstasy of love" for Ophelia, which has driven him mad.
Who is polonius in Hamlet?
Polonius is the chief counselor to the king, and also the father of Ophelia and Laertes.
Who is Ophelia's father?
Polonius.
Who is ophelia in Hamlet?
Ophelia is hamlets love interest.
What is Polonius' plan for testing his theory that Hamlet is love-crazy?
In "Hamlet", Polonious devises a plan to test his theory that Hamlet is madly in love with Ophelia, and since she is ignoring him, he is depressed. He plans to arrange for Hamlet and Ophelia to meet. He will hide close by and ease-drop to determine if he is correct in his assumption.
What does polonius tell claduis and Gertrude?
Polonius tells Claudius and Gertrude that Ophelia and Hamlet have had a relationship which Polonius had Ophelia break off, and that this might be the cause of Hamlet's wild behaviour.
Who kills herself in hamlets play?
Ophelia
