Tuesday, December 13, 2011
Hamlet - Polonius and Laertes?
Well as a father figure polonius is concerned with protecting his children. So he gives Laertes the 'neither a borrower nor a lender be' speech which is good fatherly advice. I think there's a dual aspect in terms of Polonius and Ophelia. on the one hand he is the protective father but on the other he allows his daughter to be used as part of a plan to entrap Hamlet so he makes the choice between his daughter's virtue and good name and the favour he wants to have with the king which ultimately ends up with Ophelia committing suicide and her father has effectively prostituted her. When laertes returns grief stricken and testosterone charged he's presenting the figure of the angry young man full of pion and the fight between hamlet and laertes is a kind of representation of ual power and agression but of course neither of them ends up the alpha male.
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