Polonius is one of the main characters in the play Hamlet by Shakespeare; he has a big role throughout the story before and after his death. Based on the play you can argue that Polonius is a harmless, well-meaning fool or the other way around. Polonius showed how much he cares about his son Laertes when he gives all his best advice to him before he leaves to France. ... However, his method is just pathetic. ... Polonius always looked out for his own interests throughout the play; he made Ophelia stop talking to Hamlet because he did not want Ophelia to ruin his reputation...

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The play, Hamlet by William Shakespeare, is the perfect example of a "coming of age" archetype. ... Hamlet experiences multiple events that forever change his personality over the course of the play. ... Hamlet himself says that his previous interests were "saws of books, all forms, all pressures" (1.5.100). ... He loved his father dearly, and at this moment in the play, Hamlet decides to do what is right in his eyes and avenge his hero. ... At the very end of the play, Hamlet wins back the audience's affection, just before his life ends, revealing that Shakespeare be...

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In Shakespeare's Hamlet honor and loyalty play a large role in the way that this tragedy unfolds. ... First of all, in the play Hamlet by Shakespeare Hamlet and King Hamlet's relationship can be used as an example of honor and loyalty. ... Hamlet is the only one still mourning when the play opens because his loyalty to his father is so strong that he would not just simply forsake it as many of the other characters did. ... He wants to make sure he is okay so he sends a little money to help him out and make sure he is acting in Polonius's best interests. ... The father and so...

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By literary definition, an antihero is the "hero" of the play or novel, but he/she has negative attributes which separate him or her from the classic hero figure such as Superman. Such negative aspects may include a violent nature, use of coarse language, or self serving interests which may inadvertently depict the protagonist as a hero since the result of serving those interests may be for the betterment of society or an environment. In William Shakespeare's Hamlet, the protagonist, Hamlet, is depicted as an antihero. ... Much like a political revolutionary, Hamlet has the syst...

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Ophelia, a character from the play Hamlet written by William Shakespeare, is the daughter of Polonius, sister of Laertes, and lover of prince Hamlet. Even with these three people in her life, she really has no one there for her who "truly" looks out for her best interests. ... "Perhaps he loves you now, and now no soil nor cautel doth besmirch the virtue of his will; but you must fear his greatness weighed, his will not his won, for he himself is subject to his birth" (Act 1 Scene 3, Lines 17-21). ... Then, after he tells Ophelia what to do he leaves for most of the play to go to France so he ...

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