Act 2

Act 2 Scene 1

-Wants him to watch over his kid

- Theme is "I swear" don't say that you know larities just you know what he does

- Polonius and Reynaldo talking, you throw out the bait then see if they tell you what's going on

-lord Polonius "by indirections find directions out"

-Ophelia, hamlet seemed to be in the dark and lost, she didn't understand what happened, there not for her 

-Hamlet could be planting a seed,

Or grieving his fathers death 

Act 2 scene 2

- Claudius is doing the same thing as lord Polonius 

- "your visitation shall receive such thanks.." Euphemism 

- Voltimand asking permission, to go through Denmark, nephew take leadership

- "brevity is the soul if wit"-lord polonius 

-gurtride was right, Polonius is wrong 

- fishmonger- acting like his is crazy, an insult that hamlet says to Polonius 

- hamlet; insulting him 

- lord Polonius " though this be madness yet there is method in it"

- Polonius is acting like everything hamlet is saying has a double meaning 

- hamlet was faking to Polonius 

- "...for there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so."-hamlet

- "what a piece of work is a man!" -hamlet  become cliche and is the theme of the play, such awful acts made by people 

-hamlet read his friends in that he knows they were sent by the king to watch him 

-players haven't lost their part but they aren't taken seriously anymore 

- "the plays the thing wherein I'll catch the conscience if the king" - hamlet 

-starts to beat himself up, make his body do what he wants it to do, can't speak out loud to others, nobody to love him, talk is cheep action is worth something, when whores speak they aren't seen as truthful 

-" I'll have these players Play something like the murder of my father before mine uncle" -Hamlet 

- Claudius wants everyone against hamlet