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	Polonius
		Polonius is a character from William Shakespeare's Hamlet.
		Polonius suggests that Hamlet is acting crazy because Polonius wouldn't allow Ophelia to see him.
		While Polonius was hiding behind the curtains in Gertrude[?]'s room, Hamlet comes in and sees someone hiding there.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/po/Polonius.html (169 words)

	Hamlet Haven: Polonius
		Polonius is mistaken for the King, suggesting the role of the fool.
		Polonius is “a policymaker” and “a fine seasoned conniver” (101), who “can be direct” when he calls a halt to The Mousetrap, as well as “obsequious and flattering” when he tactfully (and calculatingly) cushions the blow to Claudius and Gertrude of Hamlet’s infatuation with Ophelia (102).
		Polonius operates within a “hinge position between the court, where he exercises a power dependent upon his skill and position, and the home, where he exercises a power independent of anyone” (103).
	www.hamlethaven.com /polonius.html (1177 words)

	The Meaning Behind the Dialogue
		This colloquy between Polonius and Reynaldo is actually an integral part of the play, for it serves to highlight three closely related motifs that reverberate through the entire drama like an endless echo.
		Polonius is concerned about Laertes harming the family reputation and goes to extreme lengths to investigate.
		Polonius represents the pseudo-intellect that steadfastly avoids the inevitable by hiding behind a dense wall of intellectual arguments and analyses, none of which addresses the profound issues of life and death.
	homepage.mac.com /sapphirestudios/qod/article2.html (4684 words)

	Polonius - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Polonius is fearful that Hamlet's relationship with his daughter will hurt his reputation with the king and instructs Ophelia to "lock herself from [Hamlet's] resort." He later develops the belief that Ophelia's rejections of Hamlet's affections have caused the prince to lose his wits.
		Polonius repeats the request for help and is heard by Hamlet, who thinks Polonius is his uncle.
		The death of Polonius causes Claudius to fear for his life, Ophelia to become genuinely mad and Laertes to seek his revenge.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Polonius (565 words)

	GradeSaver: ClassicNote: Hamlet Study Guide
		Polonius is in his apartments with his servant Reynaldo.
		Polonius is upset when he hears this, and he concludes that her refusal to see Hamlet anymore has driven the young prince mad.
		Polonius is forced to tell them that at his request she ignored Hamlet or rebuked his love.
	www.gradesaver.com /classicnotes/titles/hamlet/section4.html (1621 words)

	Leithart.com \| More on Hamlet
		Polonius is an actor, bumbling over lines and sometimes correcting his dialogue, but chiefly pretending to befriend Hamlet, and he turns director and audience when he looses his daughter to the prince.
		Polonius, as always, considers this evidence of his pet theory that Hamlet is love sick, the very "ecstasy of love" (2.1.201) provoked by Ophelia's dutiful rejection of Hamlet's advances.
		Polonius is about to tell the King and Queen that his daughter has spurned Hamlet, and, perhaps more dangerously, that he had to intervene in a relationship that was already beginning to take form.
	www.leithart.com /archives/001813.php (3210 words)

	Polonius As Lord Burghley Part Two
		Polonius, throughout the play, stands isolated as the one person who does really enjoy the royal confidence; he is an old man, and no other councillor of equal rank anywhere appears.
		Polonius intercepts the letters from Hamlet to his daughter; he appropriates Hamlet's most intimate correspondence, carries it to the king, and discusses it without a moment's shame or hesitation: he and the king play the eavesdropper during Hamlet's interview with Ophelia: he himself spies upon Hamlet's interview with his mother.
		Obviously Polonius could be a simple expansion of both Polus and Pondus, with the simple insertion/substitution of three or four letters, but the case for Polus as a nickname appears to be non-existent, and the case for Pondus at minimum very weak.
	www.sourcetext.com /sourcebook/essays/polonius/corambis2.html (3481 words)

	Hamlet Navigator: Summary of Act 2, Scene 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Polonius is sending money and "notes" (maybe more advice) to his son, Laertes, but he's suspicious about what Laertes might be up to.
		Polonius is quite proud of his plan, because, as he says, "Thus do we of wisdom and of reach, / With windlasses and with assays of bias, / By indirections find directions out" (2.1.61-63).
		Polonius' exit lines, "This must be known; which, being kept close, might move / More grief to hide than hate to utter love" (2.1.115-116), are not the clearest that Shakespeare ever wrote, but they need to be considered carefully.
	www.clicknotes.com /hamlet/Two1.html (632 words)

	JiffyNotes: Hamlet: Summary: Scene 2.2
		Polonius enters to announce the return of the ambassadors to Norway, but also (and, in his mind, more importantly) to announce his discovery of the cause for Hamlet’s lunacy.
		Polonius is tickled to be center stage and promises to be brief in his account — “since brevity is the soul of wit” — but he just isn’t quite the master rhetorician that he fancies himself.
		Polonius immediately perceives a lack of coherence in Hamlet’s speech that reminds him of his own love-madness when he was young.
	www.jiffynotes.com /Hamlet/Scene2.2.html (1015 words)

	Term-Papers.us - Appearance And Reality- Claudius And Polonius
		Polonius gives his advice only to appear to be the loving caring father.
		Polonius’ appearance is not his true nature; behind the mask there lies someone totally different.
		Claudius speaks highly of Polonius giving him thanks and saying the he was responsible for Claudius becoming king: “The head is not more native to the heart, The hand more instrumental to the mouth, Than is the throne of Denmark to thy father.
	www.term-papers.us /ts/hb/sra28.shtml (3662 words)

	Hamlet Act II. Commentary at Absolute Shakespeare
		Polonius goes on to explain to King Claudius and Queen Gertrude that he told his daughter to "lock herself from his resort," (stay away from Hamlet), (Line 142) which she dutifully did, leading to Hamlet's present distress at being rejected by Ophelia (Lines 143-148).
		Polonius answers that he is not, and when Hamlet replies "Then I would you were so honest a man" (I wish then that you were such an honest man), (Line 177), we see that Hamlet is being extremely sarcastic and distrustful of Polonius' intentions and sincerity.
		Hamlet warns Polonius teasingly that he should "Let her not walk i' [in] the sun:" adding that "conception is a blessing; but not as your daughter may conceive", telling Polonius "Friend, look to't" (friend, look into this), (Line 189), by which Hamlet is saying his daughter may be at risk of unwanted pregnancy.
	absoluteshakespeare.com /guides/summaries/hamlet/act_ii.htm (4539 words)

	Hamlet Navigator: Characters: Polonius
		Polonius tells the King that he has given his son permission to return to France.
		In the second half of the scene, Ophelia reports Hamlet's strange visit to her, and Polonius rushes off to tell the King that Hamlet is mad for the love of Ophelia.
		Look you lay home to him" (3.4.1), Polonius instructs the Queen, at the opening of the scene in her closet, during which Hamlet kills Polonius.
	www.clicknotes.com /hamlet/Polonius.html (693 words)

	Lecture on Hamlet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Polonius, we should note, is an important political figure, the executive arm of the king.
		When Polonius challenges Claudius to name one occasion on which he has been wrong, Claudius concedes that Polonius is unmatched in his ability to find out the truth of a situation.
		Polonius appears to be something of a bumbling fool; inside he is a capable Machiavel always unerringly on the trail of new information.
	www.mala.bc.ca /~johnstoi/eng366/lectures/hamlet.htm (9997 words)

	Essays Papers - Polonius and Laertes Assist Hamlet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Polonius and Laertes are the main foils for Hamlet.
		Polonius shows how irrational Hamlet thinks, and Laertes shows that Hamlet must pay for his actions, even if he is royalty.
		Polonius and Hamlet were similar in that they both loved Ophelia and tried to protect her.
	www.123helpme.com /view.asp?id=41154 (1272 words)

	Hamlet
		Polonius: This master of indirection is the one who gives us the explicit description of how this process works.
		Polonius tells his spy to catch the truth as though it is a wary fish that will not otherwise take the hook:
		Polonius pursues this same tactic in his investigation of Hamlet's madness, setting up Ophelia as his spy and trying in various ways to pry the truth out of Hamlet.
	spider.georgetowncollege.edu /english/allen/hamlet4.htm (458 words)

	NovelGuide: Hamlet: Novel Summary: Act 2, Scene 2
		Polonius informs the King and Queen that Hamlet's madness is for the love of his daughter Ophelia, offering as evidence a poem written by the Prince.
		Polonius asks to be left alone with the Prince and the King and Queen exit.
		Polonius attempts to talk with Hamlet and comes to believe there to be some sort of method to his madness but cannot discover it.
	www.novelguide.com /hamlet/summaries/act2scene2.html (394 words)

	Excerpt from Going Sane Maps of Happiness by Adam Phillips
		Polonius wonders, like several other people in the play, whether Hamlet is "mad," a word used over two hundred times by Shakespeare; and used, with its cognate "madness," thirty-five times in Hamlet.
		Polonius clearly has a problem about definition here; "true madness" is a strange phrase since madness is a form of dissembling.
		Polonius connects reason and sanity, an association that has become all too familiar to us, and suggests that compared with Hamlet's madness they are lacking in something.
	www.harpercollins.com /books/9780007155392/Going_Sane/excerpt.aspx (1002 words)

	Hamlet, Polonius, Laertes and Ophelia in the initial stages of Shakespeare's Hamlet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Polonius is the key to understanding the relationships among these three characters.
		If this were the case, Polonius' character would tend to be developed as anxious and uncertain, eternally worried about how others cope with their lives but unable to cope with his own.
		This would be consistent with the way Polonius constantly meddles: giving advice, spying, moving from place to place, from scheme to scheme, in a futile and scatter-brained attempt to get a grip on things, all, so he thinks, for the good of other people.
	members.aol.com /secretslag/hamlet1.html (603 words)

	The Dusty Shelf eZine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Around the time that Hamlet sees the ghost, Polonius has asked Ophelia to reject Hamlet’s recent advances because he thinks Hamlet is trifling with her feelings.
		What follows in 2.2 is a delicate and clever scene between Hamlet and Polonius where Hamlet does not come off “crazy” ― rather he comes off as cleverly keeping Polonius off balance (presumably because he does not want to give anything away to the Claudius’ closest adviser).
		Had Polonius only dropped his hypothesis after the exchange between Hamlet and Ophelia; had he for a moment seriously considered that he was wrong; had he only found and entertained an alternate hypothesis, and further, had he devised some way to test between his hypotheses.
	www.thedustyshelf.com /1-2/hamlet2.php (1396 words)

	SparkNotes: Hamlet: Act I, scene v–Act II, scene i
		Polonius says that Hamlet must be mad with his love for Ophelia, for she has distanced herself from him ever since Polonius ordered her to do so.
		Polonius speculates that this lovesickness might be the cause of Hamlet’s moodiness, and he hurries out to tell Claudius of his idea.
		Polonius can be interpreted as either a doddering fool or as a cunning manipulator, and he has been portrayed onstage as both.
	www.sparknotes.com /shakespeare/hamlet/section4.rhtml (1303 words)

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		Polonius, as a negative force, helps create more tension and turmoil in Hamlet's life and keeps things interesting, while Horatio, as a positive force, is really the only person Hamlet stays "sane" with during the play, letting the reader start to question whether Hamlet's madness is really real.
		Although Polonius and Horatio are both intelligent and well-respected men, Polonius's thoughts and behaviors with regard to Hamlet seem to cause further turmoil in Hamlet's life, while the thoughts and behaviors of Horatio seem well intentioned and meant to aid Hamlet in this tumultuous time in his life.
		Polonius tells Ophelia not to have contact with Hamlet and to send back his letters (I.iii.) and then thinks Hamlet is going mad because Ophelia is denying him (II.i.).
	www.english.udel.edu /dean/205/papers/saxbypre.html (862 words)

	The Tragic Death Of Polonius' Family
		In Hamlet, by William Shakespeare, the death of a character is a frequent occurrence.
		Although Polonius often acts in a deceitful manner when dealing with Hamlet, it is only because he is carrying out plans devised by the King or Queen to discover the nature of Hamlet's madness.
		It is, also, about the tragic fate of Polonius' family, whose deaths are the result of trying to better themselves in the eyes of the King.
	www.studyworld.com /basementpapers/papers/stack38_16.html (818 words)

	Author Information
		When Polonius tells the King and Queen why he thinks Hamlet is crazy the Queen says it is because his father is dead and her quick marriage that he is just mourning.
		Polonius suggest that he and the King hide behind a wall hanging to eavesdrop on Hamlet.
		When Hamlets friends ask for Polonius body so they can bury it Hamlet tells them the King is just using them like a sponge.
	www.geocities.com /polonius192000/chapter.html (628 words)

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		A common cut in Hamlet is the dialogue between Polonius and his man, Reynaldo, at the very beginning of Act 2, Scene 1.
		Upon reflection of this dialogue between Polonius and Reynaldo, important questions are raised.
		He admits his act to his mother after killing Polonius, “That I essentially am not in madness, but mad in craft.” (3.4, lines 194, 195) This is a play concerned with counterfeits.
	www.unc.edu /~presley/hamlet.doc (860 words)

	Enjoying "Hamlet" by William Shakespeare
		Polonius comes in and announces that the ambassadors from Norway have returned, and that after their report he will tell them why Hamlet is acting strange.
		Polonius notes in an aside (a movie director would use a voice-over), "Though this be madness, yet there is method in it" -- another famous line often misquoted.
		Polonius gives his daughter a book, plants her where Hamlet will find her, and tells her to pretend she is reading.
	www.pathguy.com /hamlet.htm (18099 words)

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