FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
HAMLET
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Question
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Gertrude has died
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Laertes is missing
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He has forbidden Ophelia from talking to Hamlet.
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Horatio went out hunting and did not return
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Detailed explanation-1: -Polonius says that Hamlet must be mad with his love for Ophelia, for she has distanced herself from him ever since Polonius ordered her to do so. Polonius speculates that this lovesickness might be the cause of Hamlet’s moodiness, and he hurries out to tell Claudius of his idea.
Detailed explanation-2: -101-103). Polonius does not care how his daughter feels and he does not want her associating with Hamlet. Like Laertes, he believes that Hamlet’s affections are insincere and even mocks his own daughter’s naivety. Ophelia rebuts with, “I do not know, my lord, what I should think (1.3.
Detailed explanation-3: -Ophelia is warned Laertes speaks with his sister Ophelia. Laertes leaves Elsinore and warns his sister Ophelia to stay away from Hamlet before he goes. Ophelia then tells her father that Hamlet has expressed his love for her. Her father, Polonius, forbids her to see him.
Detailed explanation-4: -The main reason why Polonius thinks that Hamlet is mad is because of his obsessive love for Ophelia. As a result, he forbids his daughter to communicate with the prince for her safety and dignity.
Detailed explanation-5: -Hamlet is at first courteous to Ophelia, but suddenly he turns on her: he denies having loved her, asks where her father is, attacks womankind, and tells her she should enter a nunnery.