HAMLET ACT II SCENE I

• Polonius is trying to gain info on son from Reynaldo

• (Opp. from Hamlet's swear w/friends) he's trying to get Reynaldo to confess and tell each other of ghost

• Characterization: Polonius isn't honest and self-absorbed 

• Bait → find out the real stuff

• "By indirections find directions out." 

Possible interpretation 1→ Hamlet is lovesick + expressed himself

Possible interpretation 2→ Part of 'vengeance' plan

Possible interpretation 3→ Ophelia is just lying through teeth

• Sith → Since, Claudius is acknowledging that he doesn't know why Hamlet is crazy (manipulator) 

                     ↳ Asking his two friends and using them

• Voltimand → Uncle found out that had crew to attack Hamlet in Denmark

• #PoloniusSays: "...brevity is the soul of wit..."

• ↓ when have I been wrong? Cut head off if so

• #PoloniusSays: [Aside] "Though this be madness, yet there is method in't."

• Hamlet's planning something ("fools...")

• #HamletSays: "...for there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so..."

• Hamlet tells friends that questions are set up and are being paid to ask them