FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
HAMLET
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A necklace.
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A piece of Hamlet’s hair.
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A love letter from Hamlet.
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A break-up letter from Hamlet.
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Detailed explanation-1: -IN Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Polonius, the chief minister of the Court of King Claudius, reads a love letter to the royal couple that Hamlet wrote to Ophelia. Polonius presents it as evidence for the correctness of his conclusion that love for Ophelia has made Hamlet mad.
Detailed explanation-2: -She also gives him columbine for ingratitude and infidelity. Rue, for sorrow, she gives to Gertrude; she also offers Gertrude daisy, for springtime and love, and says she lost her own violets, which represent sweetness, when her father died.
Detailed explanation-3: -Ophelia says that it was “something touching the Lord Hamlet” (I.ii.89). Polonius asks her about her relationship with Hamlet. She tells him that Hamlet claims to love her. Polonius sternly echoes Laertes’ advice and forbids Ophelia to associate with Hamlet anymore.
Detailed explanation-4: -Hamlet is no novice when it comes to passionate language, as he proves in the love letter he writes to Ophelia. In this scene, Polonius is reading it aloud to Claudius and Gertrude.
Detailed explanation-5: -Readers know Hamlet wrote love letters to Ophelia because she shows them to Polonius. In addition, Hamlet tells Ophelia, “I did love you once” (3.1. 117). He professes his love for Ophelia again to Laertes, Gertrude, and Claudius after Ophelia has died, saying, “I loved Ophelia.