1) What is Laertes advice to Ophelia?
To stay way from Hamlet, since he will be forced to marry someone other than her.
2) How does “The canker galls the infants of the spring/ too oft before their buttons be disclos’d” fit into the ideology of the decaying garden?
3) What analogy does Ophelia give to her brother as an answer to his advice? What does she mean?
She gives him an analogy of death.
4) List five of the “few precepts” that Polonius gives to Laertes.
5) In lines 105-109, what is the metaphor that Polonius uses to describe Hamlet’s words of love?
He gives the metaphor of new life, but not a good one.
6) List and explain one metaphor found in the lines 115-135.
Metaphor of hell; "Lends the tongue vows. These blazes, daughter, Giving more light than heat, extinct in both Even in their promise as it is a-making, You must not take for fire."
7) What is Polonius’ command to Ophelia?
Not to marry Hamlet because he knows what would happen to he when Hamlet is forced to marry someone
else.
8) In scene 4, what is Hamlet talking about in lines 13-38?
He is talking about the cannons getting fired off, since the king has been drinking for too long, and he is
also firing off the cannons daily, when it is usually a rare event.
also firing off the cannons daily, when it is usually a rare event.
9) Why doesn’t Horatio want Hamlet to follow the ghost?
He is afradi that the ghost will drive him insane, and cause him to hurt himself.
10) What is Hamlet’s command to the three guards?
To keep the secret of Hamlet's uncle poisoning his dad.
Justin - #4. This is just the long list of advice that Polonius gives to his son Laertes. You need to give some of this list.
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