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Q: What is lClaudius' theory on why Ophelia is acting so oddly?
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What is oddly funny?

When someone tries to be funny but it doesn't work. Or, When they are done asking a joke they oddly laugh. For example, snorting when your laughing.Hope this helped :)


What was hamlets treatment of Ophelia?

She went along with her father's plan to cut off all communication with him which was not very nice. She also went along with her father's plan to entice Hamlet into revealing why he is acting oddly, at least in part. This was a betrayal of confidence, and Hamlet was furious about it.


What is the true nature of Hamlet and Ophelia's relationship?

This is a matter of some debate. Clearly they had a romantic relationship (witness Hamlet's love-letter and "remembrances"); opinions differ on how physical that relationship went before the play started. There are also multiple interpretations of what happened to them during the play. We know that Ophelia was forced by her father to repudiate Hamlet, and he stops by her room half-undressed and behaving in a very odd way. Is this the ecstasy of love? Or Hamlet play-acting the madman? Or Hamlet trying to decide whether he can trust Ophelia? They have not talked for some time by the time we get to Act 3 Scene 1. The scene starts off awkwardly, because they are both trying to hint at something which they cannot say aloud because they both know that they are being watched, but they do not know that the other one knows. Ophelia would like to say, "Be very careful what you say, because my father is watching," while Hamlet would like to say, "I may behave oddly because I know your father is watching, but I still care." When Hamlet finds that she is aware that her father is watching, he leaps to the conclusion that she is part of the plot, and gets angry. Her affection has been bought by her father and by the King, therefore she belongs in a "nunnery". Shortly afterward he will inadvertently kill her father, and never get a chance to explain his anger. She concludes, not that he does not love her for her unworthiness, or that he is a jerk who doesn't deserve her love, but that "what a noble mind is here o'erthrown." He is crazy, or he would still show he loves her. We get a further hint of what is going on in Hamlet's mind at Ophelia's funeral. Feeling abandoned by all the men in her life, she has gone insane and died, maybe by suicide. Hamlet protests to Laertes "I loved Ophelia! Forty thousand brothers could not, with all their quantity of love, make up my sum." Are we to take Hamlet at his word? Or is he merely protesting against Laertes's preposterous gesture in jumping into her grave?The thing about Hamlet is, there isn't a simple answer to anything. And that's why it's the greatest play in the world.


Who are the oddly dressed blonde twins on shake it up?

Gunther and Tinka Hezzenheffer


Was africans the only slaves?

Actually there were Irish and oddly spanish slave during this time period

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Who reports the strange behavior of Hamlet in Hamlet by William Shakespeare?

In the second act, Polonius reports to King Claudius and Queen Gertrude that his daughter, Ophelia, witnessed Hamlet behaving oddly, but it is implied that his behaviour is the talk of the castle.


What is a sentence using the word acting?

He doesn't like you, he's just acting friendly.


What does the word dorky mean?

A dork is a stupid or inept person or in a more charitible light someone who is out of touch and appears to behave oddly. Therefore someone who is "dorky" is acting in a stupid or inept fashion or acting in an out of touch way.


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Oddly enough, a cup!Oddly enough, a cup!Oddly enough, a cup!Oddly enough, a cup!


Why is your rabbit stumbling and died 2 hours later?

It could be many things. Next time any animal you own starts acting oddly, head right to the vet ASAP.


Why didn't Will Smith do stand up?

For the same reason that you didn't . . . he didn't want to. After all, Will started out as a musician, then went into acting. Oddly, there is an English man named Will Smith who is a very successful standup comedian.


Where do you find oddly on HorseIsle?

Oddly lives on Magma Isle, west of Venus' house.


Who are the scientist of quantum theory of light?

Oddly enough the first one was Albert Einstein. His nobel prize was for this work not his already published theory of relativity (because it was too weird) he later rejected the current form of quantum mechanics because of Bohr's addition of the "copenhagen interpretation".


How do you use oddly enough in a sentence?

Oddly enough, I immediately saw the solution to the problem at hand.


What is a sentence for the word oddly?

Oddly, I could not find an existing example sentence question for this word. The race ended oddly as three motorcycles became tangled together at the finish line.