How does polonius explain this incident

Hamlet storms into the room and asks his mother why she has sent for him. She says that he has offended his father, meaning his stepfather, Claudius.

He interrupts her and says that she has offended his father, meaning the dead King Hamlet, by marrying Claudius. Hamlet accosts her with an almost violent intensity and declares his intention to make her fully aware of the profundity of her sin. Fearing for her life, Gertrude cries out. From behind the arras, Polonius calls out for help. He draws his sword and stabs it through the tapestry, killing the unseen Polonius.

He turns to his mother, declaring that he will wring her heart. He shows her a picture of the dead king and a picture of the current king, bitterly comments on the superiority of his father to his uncle, and asks her furiously what has driven her to marry a rotten man such as Claudius.

She pleads with him to stop, saying that he has turned her eyes onto her soul and that she does not like what she sees there. Hamlet continues to denounce her and rail against Claudius, until, suddenly, the ghost of his father again appears before him.

Such is his dilemma; if he acts, it is through impulse, and he falls into guilt; if he reflects, he cannot act — that is, he cannot do the Great Deed of his life, and so commits, at least, a sin of omission. What will be Hamlet's solution? He tells it himself in the latter part of the play. Throw yourself back into impulse, and abandon control through intelligence.

But what will be the result of such a doctrine? Death — the thinking being who cannot act from thought must perish. According to Hamlet, what do those who used to make faces at Claudius do now? Beg to paint portraits of him. Why does Polonius consider it significant that Hamlet brings of Jephthah and his daughter? Is he correct?

He compares Jephthah to Polonius because of their daughters — yes. They will grow too old for their parts.

Hamlet asks the player to speak a speech from a play. What is the subject of that speech, which Hamlet begins and the Player King completes, and why is it significant?

Murder What play does Hamlet ask the players to perform on the following night? What does he want added? The Murder of Gonzago, a speech of lines he composed.

What contrast does Hamlet make between himself and the Player King? In the second part of the scene, Ophelia enters and reports that Hamlet has been acting incomprehensibly. She describes with painter's language the way Hamlet is attired:.

The description is one that Polonius immediately recognizes — "Mad for thy love? Thus, Ophelia's purpose in this scene seems to be to give credence to the notion that Hamlet never loved Ophelia at all, but merely used her. If so, then Hamlet is as guilty of deceptiveness as are those he judges.

Hence the meaning of the phrase is "indirect attempts. The coat that was fastened braced to the hose short breeches by laces.