1) He says she should be careful and shouldn’t fall for him because even though Hamlet might say he loves her, he has to do what’s best for the country, and that probably isn’t marrying her.
2) That Ophelia is like a flower in spring and Hamlet is like the worm, or the canker galls, and the worm destroys the flower before it blooms. This suggests that Hamlet
3) She says she will take his advice to heart, but she will still do what she wants. And she tells him not to be a hypocrite because she knows what he does in France with all the other girls.
4) 1- Listen to people and let them talk, but don’t say much in return. 2- don’t speak your thoughts, keep them in your head. 3- Be friendly enough, but don’t make yourself cheap. 4- Don’t shake hands (in friendship) with every young man. 5- Beware of entering a quarrel, but if you do enter in one, make others fear you.
5) He is saying that because she believes Hamlet loves her it makes her seem like a baby because she believes him. Also that because of her babyish actions, he looks like a fool.
6) A metaphor is when Polonius talks about the woodcock. He is relating it to Ophelia by saying if she keeps sneaking around with Hamlet she will be caught, because, like the woodcock, she is foolish and sets herself up to get caught easily.
7) He forbids her to see Hamlet.
8) He is talking about how other countries think Denmark is a drunk and foolish place, and that their drunkenness takes away from their achievements, and lessens their reputation. Then he goes on to compare it with how people can’t help that they are born with defects, and how one small defect in a person can bring them down. Also how a little show of evil can damage someone’s reputation.
9) He thinks the ghost could be a demon disguised as his father’s ghost, and that it might try to kill him if they are alone together.
10) He commands them not to repeat anything they saw or heard between him and the ghost.
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