... , this young man proves not to be a good politician. Not digressing, Hamlet's ingeniousness continues. Hamlet then precedes with further banter: "For yourself, sir, shall grow old as I am - if like a crab you could go backward."(II.II. 202-3) Though his words seem absurd, Hamlet has hit the mark. For Polonius would indeed need to crawl backwards in order to reach hamlets ... worm. (IV.III. 19 -28) This is one of the most profound statements that Hamlet has mad thus far. For it is humbling to think that those who are royal now, may soon be humbled by the fact that they will simply return ...

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... mourning and forget his father's death when not even two months had passed since his father died. It is clear by the cold behaviour of Hamlet in the scene that he had not accepted him as a father and was very furious to his mother for not being loyal to his father and marrying ... to Hamlet this advice was the worst thing he could hear from anybody specially his close relative, his uncle. The agenda of Claudius's advice that Shakespeare infers to his audience is that his advice is for his own betterment and he that he had his own motives and agendas behind the advice for ... 57).However...

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