Hamlet Act 2

1. Polonius tells Reynaldo to spy of his son while he is away. He wants to know what his son is up to in Paris. He plans to trap his son by having Reynaldo tell little lies to then find out the truth by peoples reactions and answers to his questions.

2. It shows you that Polonius is a self-centered person. He wants to find out what his son is up too so it doesn't come back to hurt him.

3. Ophelia gets disturbed when Hamlet comes running to her half naked acting insane and mad.

4. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern have been sent to Denmark to find out what is wrong with poor Hamlet.

5. Hamlet asks the players to recite a piece from what happened in the Trojan war, when Aeneas told Dido about Priams murder. It mimics what is happening in Hamlet because Hamlet is seeking revenge for his father's death just as Pyrrhus is seeking revenge for Achilles death. Also, both the women or queens are going to be drastically affected by the revenge these men wish to seek.

6. Ophelia talking to Polonius. The line is talking about how Ophelia kept her distance from Hamlet just as her father told her to do.

7. The queen is talking to Polonius. She is telling him to stick to the point and to stop babbling on. This shows that the queen seems to not care for Polonius very much and is quite impatient and Polonius loves to tell stories and wants to gain acceptance from the upper class, by impressing the queen.

8. Hamlet is speaking to himself of how he must avenge his father.

9. Polonius speaking to Reynaldo about his plan to spy on his son. He tells Reynaldo of how he wants him to tell lies about his son to find out the truth about what he is doing in Paris.

10. Hamlet speaks these lines. First, he is using himself as a pun sun "son" then he says that he will breed maggots "get women pregnant" talking about Ophelia. Polonius isn't able to use anything out of this because Hamlet is still supposedly acting crazy.

11. Direct - denmark as a prison

Implied - lies are a poison

Extended - garden of eden

12. When Hamlet came to Ophelia half-naked and grabbed her by the arm then leaves.

13. This is when Hamlet is talking about denmark being a prison. Rosencrantz and Guildenberg don't think that it is. It's a prison to hamlet because he knows these secrets that he isn't able to tell anybody, thus making him feel trapped like a prison.

14. A fishmonger is slang for a pimp.

15. Jephthah was a man who sacrificed his daughter for political reasons.