Thursday, November 13, 2008

Reaction to Polonius

What is your reaction to Polonius's decision to tell King Claudius his interpretation of Hamlet's behavior? Does he have an obligation to do so since he is the king's advisor (notice there is NO comma before the word "since")? Should he just stay out of it all together? Should he advice Ophelia on the matter then leave it alone? USE THREE VOCABULARY WORDS TO RESPOND.

10 comments:

Lauren Cozart said...

i think that he and ophilia need to form a CABAL and figure out a way to straighten hamlet out. becuase if he tells the king he is not going to be very DELECTABLE and he might hurt hamlet.. so i think he should help her out and tell her what to do and just leave her to the situation and if it keeps getting out of control and he keeps having ASPERITY with ophilia then i think he should go to the king..

Unknown said...

I think that polonius should tell the king because he dose have the right to since his job is to advise the king.lol. if he didnt advice the king then he would be a flaccid advisor and should be behaedaded.thats my view point. I mean what hamelt did to ohpile was a onerouse moment for her. and if it scared his daughter he should try to stop ti from happening again. at least they could try to winnow Hamelets odd behaviores.

Dylan said...

I think that Polonius made the right descision. Afterall, he is King Claudius' messenger. In those days it was very rife to tell the king everything if you worked for him. I do not think it is fair at all to deprecate poor little Polonius; he was only doing his job. When you work for the King, you can sequester nothing.

Anonymous said...

I think that polonius made the right decision. Although he has a cabal watching hamlet, i think tat his information from ophelia gives him the right to tell the King. Althoug Hamlet is just acting, i think that polonius is carin for her daughter and for Hamlet. This onerous situation was handled the right way, though i think that he should have gone to hamlet first to find out what is really going on. it looks like the rudiments of this story have just begun.

Anonymous said...

I think that Polonius has the right to talk to his daughter about her and Hamlet's relationship because it's his daughter. I don't think he should tell the king all of the details he should just sequester the part about Hamlet being mad and only tell him that. That would be important for the king to know so that way he could winnow Hamlet if he was a threat to society. I think that Polonious would be a flaccid assistant if he didn't tell the king about Hamlet acting crazy.

Unknown said...

In my opinion, I think that Polonius should help Ophelia in every way that he can since she is his daughter. I would expect my father to do the same if I were her, even if his advice was onerous to me. I also believe that Polonius should tell the King about Hamlet's behavior. If Polonius was my advisor and I found out that he didn't do his job, I would winnow him! If Polonius was just a random person who worked for the kingdom, like a servant, I would think that he should stay out of the situation altogether. The information that Polonius knows is not eclectic because he only heard it from Ophelia, but Polonius's position in the kingdom is what makes me think that he should tell the King everything he heard, whether it's true or not.

Anonymous said...

I think Polonius made the right decision. If someone kept having asperity with my daughter, and they had a flaccid mind, I would certainly inform there parent. Even if I couldn't winnow the situation, I'd still try to make it a bit better.

Anonymous said...

I believe Polonius did he right thing to tell the king what went down. If he didnt what kind of advisor is he? It could be possible that if he didnt tell the king then the king could have had him killed and he would have been a very moribund man. If he didnt tell the king it could have been hapenning rifely and things could have went wayy worse. Now that the kind knows what happened then he will deffinitly be sequestering Ophilia and Hammlet.

sara skidmore said...
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sara skidmore said...

I think polonius did not have the right to tell the king his interpertation of hamlet's behavior because it's really none of his business. he is the kings advisor but he shouldn't be so nosey. It's not right to gossip about people who are going through rough times. He just lost his dad and now his girlfriend can't see him. He doesn't need gossip. I think he should've just told ophelia and then left everything alone. I really think that he should investigate by forming a CABAL to figure out whats going on with hamlet just because hamlets is ophelia's boyfriend, but not because he wants to gossip about hamlet. I guess it was just RIFE to tell the king everything if you are his advisor. I think that those kinds of situations were AMBIENT to people during those times so maybe that's why he felt the king should know.

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