“Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice.”

What Polonius means when he says is that you should listen to everyone but not to give everyone your opinion. It’s like they say how communication is a two way process and that first you have to listen to understand the other person. God gave us two ears and one mouth, possibly this shows us the ratio that we should stand by. I think that this is an interesting thing that we should stand by. We are always complaining about how people are not good with talking to. This is because when two people are talking no one is getting any thing, some one has to be the one who will be patent and listen.

"Neither a lender or borrower be for loan oft loses both itself and friend."

Polonius said this quote while he was giving Leartes advice before he went to England. This shows how he cares about his son. What he means is that you shouldn’t be a lender or a person who borrows. Because when you loan or borrow then you end up hating each other because one always needs to collect the loan and the other always need to pay it back. This drives a wedge between their friendships and so they both suffer and then the loan is lost or just carried out for very extended periods of time. This quote definitely applies to the world to day because look at every one who is in a bad loan and getting for closed. For loan oft loses both itself and friend.

Gertrude and the Drink

Claudius is condemned when he lets Gertrude drink from the poisoned cup. This is one of the reasons that the people watching the play feel more for Hamlet because Claudius could have easily stopped his wife from drinking from the cup. Claudius was so scared of everyone finding out that he was a treacherous, murderous, scumbag that he let her drink and when she started to feel the effects from the poison and fell he tried again to cover it up he just said that she swooned to see Hamlet and Laertes bleed. This is the act that seals Claudius’ death warrant because once Hamlet found out who killed her with this treachery he fulfilled his father’s wish and took revenge.

Hamlet a murderer or a righteous killer

There are many ways of looking at this argument if you look at numbers Hamlet kills far more people than Claudius does. You would think that this makes him a villain but because we feel for the situation that Hamlet was put in we feel that it was ok that he killed more we feel that it is all justified. Personally I think that Hamlet was put in situations that he killed people. He didn’t know that to stab Laertes would kill him. The king had sent Rosencrantz and Guildenstern to make sure that he made it to England where he would be killed he just got out of the situation. The only killing that I feel was unnecessary was when he killed Polonius.

Hamlet's True Love for Ophelia

I know that many people think in the 'get thee to a nunnery' scene Hamlet is being horribly and abominably rude. I do not feel so. Because as Hamlet lounges at Ophelia's feet he tells her the same thing just in a softer way and tells her to 'marry no man and to not be a breeder of sinners' because all men are liars. When it is put in this light some of the things that he said to her don't seem to be so harsh. Also at the time of the shouting scene Hamlet feels that Ophelia is involved in the conspiracy to spy on him, which she is just not to her knowledge. At the time Ophelia did lie to Hamlet and tell him that her father was at home, whether she knew she was lying or not is debatable, but Hamlet took this as an offence, and we get the whole yelling match.

" Goodnight Sweet Prince, and flights of angles sing thee to thy rest." Horatio's loyalty

Horatio's loyalty to Hamlet is one of the best lessons that we can learn from. He was a loyal friend through thick and thin, sanity and madness. He was always there for Hamlet. He is Shakespeare’s version of the best friend. While Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are the examples of turn coat friends that will follow you only when it suits them best or when they can get something out of it. Loyalty is a big part of Hamlet, Hamlet is mad at his mother because he feels that she wasn’t loyal to his dead father. Well lets face it Hamlet is mad at every one because he feels that they are not loyal to him or in some kind of plot against him, and to be honest most of the time he is right.

Hamlet’s Sanity: not there

Hamlet is a hard character to tell what he is truly thinking though out the play because he is trying to mislead the king and the rest of the court. I believe that he starts out acting insane but that the acting started to turn real and that there are parts of the play where I truly do question Hamlet's sanity. One of the major parts where he gives into his madness and grief is in the queen's chambers. He doesn't think what he is doing through and acts very impulsively. Then at the end when he thinks that he sees his father I am not so sure that that wasn't just a figment of Hamlets’ imagination. I believe that the original apparition was real and that the king truly did kill Hamlet’s father but then Hamlet goes and takes it to a whole new level and goes mad. I’m kookoo for coco puffs kookoo.