In Hamlet, Ophelia returns Hamlet’s letters and presents because she is acting according to the wishes of her father and Claudius. The two men hope to use this staged interaction to determine the true nature of Hamlet’s sanity.
Q. Why does Polonius tell Ophelia to pretend to be reading?
Why does Polonius tell Ophelia to pretend to be reading a book of devotions? So Hamlet won’t suspect she is waiting for him, so that her father can observe them. Go to a nunnery; he is bitter about love having observed his mother.
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Q. What did Polonius say to Ophelia?
She tells him that Hamlet claims to love her. Polonius sternly echoes Laertes’ advice and forbids Ophelia to associate with Hamlet anymore. He tells her that Hamlet has deceived her in swearing his love and that she should see through his false vows and rebuff his affections. Ophelia pledges to obey.
Q. What reasons does Hamlet give for rejecting Ophelia?
Hamlet is cruel to Ophelia because he has transferred his anger at Gertrude’s marriage to Claudius onto Ophelia. In fact, Hamlet’s words suggest that he transfers his rage and disgust for his mother onto all women. He says to Ophelia, “God has given you one face and you make yourselves another.
Q. What question does Hamlet ask in To Be or Not To Be?
When Hamlet asks “To be or not to be?”, he is asking himself whether it is better to be alive—and suffer what life offers—or to be dead by one’s own hand and end the suffering. His father’s murder and his mother’s marriage to his villainous uncle have caused Hamlet to contemplate the merits of suicide.
Q. Is to be or not to be a paradox?
The text to be or not to be by William Shakespeare refers to the paradox of life and death. In other words, despite we can perceive a solution to our problems (death), we are incapable of taking action (committing suicide) because we have the eternal problem of thinking.
Q. What is a famous paradox?
Russell’s paradox is the most famous of the logical or set-theoretical paradoxes. Also known as the Russell-Zermelo paradox, the paradox arises within naïve set theory by considering the set of all sets that are not members of themselves.
Q. What is the paradox of life?
A paradox is a statement that may seem contradictory but can be true (or at least make sense). This makes them stand out and play an important role in literature and everyday life. Beyond that, they can simply be entertaining brain teasers.
