SparkTeach Teacher's Handbook. Is the Ghost real? Did Hamlet and Ophelia have sex? Who is Fortinbras? Was Hamlet really in love with Ophelia? Why does Hamlet encourage the actor to recite the speech about Pyrrhus and Priam? Polonius' address of Hamlet and the way he refuses to disagree with him to the point of absurdity eg.
Is the formality Hamlet's way of mocking him in those scenes, or would that have been normal? About Shakespeare scholar. But he's actually missing a lot of what's happening right in front of him. Polonius chalks Hamlet's comments up to his madness and says they're immaterial. But are they? Polonius first asks if Hamlet recognizes him, and Hamlet replies he knows him as a "fishmonger" that's a guy who sells fish, but it's also slang for "pimp".
Maybe that means Hamlet knows Polonius is using his daughter and her romantic relationship with Hamlet, for personal gain. Hamlet also quips with Polonius that honest men are rare, and that the sun would breed maggots in a dead dog because that flesh is good enough to be kissed by the sun.
We're not really sure where he's going with all this until he brings it back to Ophelia. Hamlet says she should be kept out of the sun, as the sun would likely conceive with her too, thus likening our delicate Ophelia's womb to a dead dog rotting in the sun, which would then breed maggots.
Hamlet follows this by saying, "Come, sir, to draw toward an end with you" as he drags Polonius out of the room. He means that he drawing toward the end of his dealings with Polonius, as he is drawing dragging him out of the room. The king is a thing--" 4. What Hamlet says to Rosencrantz here is part of legal doctrine.
He says that "a man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a king, and eat of the fish that hath fed of that worm," to make the point that "a king may go a progress through the guts of a beggar" 4.
Part of the joke is that a kingly "progress" is a great dignified affair with parades and speeches and such. When the King again asks Hamlet where Polonius is, Hamlet tells him to go to hell by saying, "In heaven; send thither to see: if your messenger find him not there, seek him i' the other place yourself" 4. A little later, just as Hamlet is about to leave for England, he says goodbye to the King with "Farewell, dear mother," and explains, "father and mother is man and wife; man and wife is one flesh; and so, my mother" 4.
Here he is making a paradox out of something that tortures him. His mother was "one flesh" with his father, and now she is "one flesh" with his uncle, so which flesh is the "one flesh"? If you are truly great you do not "find quarrel in a straw," but fight only for a good cause--a "great argument.
It means that Fortinbras, "with divine ambition puff'd" 4. The problem with taking the statement as sarcasm is that Hamlet is apparently vowing to be like Fortinbras. But perhaps Hamlet doesn't mean everything he says, even when he's talking to himself. This fellow might be in's time a great buyer of land, with his statutes, his recognizances, his fines, his double vouchers, his recoveries: is this the fine of his fines, and the recovery of his recoveries, to have his fine pate full of fine dirt?
The very conveyances of his lands will hardly lie in this box; and must the inheritor himself have no more, ha? The second part of Hamlet's quadruple pun on "fine," "fine pate full of fine dirt," is easy enough, but "fine of fines" needs a little explanation.
Hamlet seems to reach a long way for his next pun. The Latin root word in "indenture" is "dent," meaning "tooth.
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