Who returns hamlet to denmark after his exile?

Answer 1

Ophelia returns Hamlets gifts because she no longer feels that have any value to her since the sentimental value that they once carried has been lost due to his rude and insane behaviour towards her.

Answer 2

Ophelia. In what's called the Nunnery Scene, which is Act 3 scene 1, Ophelia returns the remembrances, as she calls them. Here are her lines for that.

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Ophelia: My Lord, I have remembrances of yours

That I have longed long to redeliver;

I pray you now receive them.

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The word "remembrances" means they are keepsake or memento type items. They don't have much financial value, but they have sentimental value.

Answer 3

Polonius arranged for Claudius and himself to eavesdrop on Hamlet and Ophelia in what is called the 'Nunnery Scene'. That occurs in Scene 8 (Act 3 scene 1.)

Ophelia returned Hamlet's "remembrances" there, with Claudius listening, as a test of whether Hamlet was mad with love for Ophelia. Polonius concluded that Hamlet was mad with love for Ophellia in Scene 6 (Act 2 scene 1.)

So, in the Nunnery Scene, Polonius was trying to prove to Claudius that he was right, about Hamlet being madly in love with Ophelia. The gifts were part of testing that.

Hamlet had the choice of accepting the things back, or refusing them, of course. He could have refused them, and insisted that he loved her (with Claudius listening) but he didn't do that. So, Polonius's idea did not work out.

The short answer is that it was a test of whether Polonius was right, about Hamlet being madly in love with Ophelia, and set up in a way that Claudius could hear it for himself.

The simplest answer is that her father told her to do so. He commands her, "I would not, in plain terms, from this time forth, have you so slander any moment leisure as to give words or talk with the Lord Hamlet." Well, dumping him usually means returning his love-tokens, and Act 3 Scene 1 may be her first chance to do so. Polonius has never retracted his command that she is not to entertain his offers of love, although he clearly has changed his mind about talking to him.

Hamlet's next line is "No, not I, I never gave you ought". Why does he say this? Possibly he really didn't give the gifts to her in the first place, and her "returning" them is a message that the meeting is a trap--a message which he doesn't get.

Answer 4

She says, "rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind." In other words, the gifts may have been nice, but they are not nice if the person giving them isn't nice. But hang on! It is Ophelia who "did repel his letters and has denied his access" to her. It is Ophelia who has been unkind. So why does she accuse Hamlet of it?

Maybe she feels guilty about treating him this way, and rather than admit that she has been a louse, she accuses him of it. This could be an indication that, even at this early stage, her sanity is fragile. Or she may be thinking of his appearance in her private rooms only half-dressed. Maybe she was "so affrighted" because Hamlet did more than she let on to her father. Or she may have persuaded herself that Hamlet really was "trifling with her affection" as her father said to her.

Or, it could be that she is trying to get a message to Hamlet to watch what he says, because there are eavesdroppers. She cannot just out and say this, so she has to hint that something is wrong. She may be trying to do this by saying things which are manifestly untrue.

Answer 5

"My Lord, I have remembrances of yours which I have longed long to redeliver. I pray you now to receive them." The common interpretation is that the "remembrances" are the gifts Hamlet gave her or her love letters. It is hard to know what else they could be.

Answer 6

The script does not specify exactly what she returned to him--a locket, some keepsakes, perhaps? Many people think she returned his love letters. It's the director's call.

Answer 7

pirates lol