Hamlet Questions 1.3-1.4

1.) He was trying to warn Ophelia to keep away from Hamlet. Laertes doesn't think that Hamlet is able to truly love someone because he is of royalty.


2.) I guess what they're trying to say is that Ophelia is a gentle flower, and the canker galls are insects eating away at that gentle flower slowly before it can blossom.


3.) She's trying to tell Laertes that she'll go with his advice and not see Hamlet. And she's also saying that what he does in France is not fooling her.

4.)
• Don't dress real fancy
• Don't pick any fights
• Don't be a vulgar type of person
• Try to be kind to people but not too kind
• Don't speak your thought


5.) He's being a selfish man and trying to keep her away too protect his reputation. He's saying that Ophelia is being childish and foolish for falling for Hamlet's words.


6.) When the blood burns, how prodigal the soul lends the tongue vows. These blazes, daughter, Giving more light than heat, extinct in both even in their promise as it is a-making, You must not take for fire.
What Hamlet is trying to say is that when he has caught fire, he will be speaking of stuff he doesn't truly mean, and when his heart catches fire it'll give out more light than heat. And that he won't be done with his promises before the fire goes out on his heart. You can't mix those two together and get a successful result.


7.) Polonius is saying that she does not go near and see Hamlet whatsoever. He doesn't think it feels right that she wants to be around him.


8.) Hamlet is trying to say that it's of his people and his heritage to drink a lot, but he chose not to because he doesn't want to be known as that type of person. For most accomplishments that they have achieved so far, they don't also want to be known for heavy drinkers and phonies.


9.) Horatio thinks that the ghost may not actually be the ghost of Old Hamlet, but actually the devil trying to lure Hamlet and turn him into a complete mad man.


10.) That if they don't let go of him, he will kill them.