Hamlet 2.2

1.) Claudius sent for Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.

2.) He has sent on them to spy on Hamlet

3.) Voltimand and Cornelius bring back news that the king of Norway found out what Fortinbras was doing and told him not to attack Denmark

4.) Norway asks for permission to pass through Denmark on their march to Poland

5.) He’s telling them to listen to him though he rarely listens to himself

6.) Polonius’s plan is for him and Claudius to hid behind an arras when Hamlet is with Ophelia and see if he is really in love with Ophelia

7.) Hamlet calls Polonius a fishmonger or a pimp because Polonius uses his daughter to get further in life

8.) Polonius says that madness gets the point across while sanity would not as well

9.) To Hamlet Denmark is corrupt

10.) He tells them that he has now realized people are nothing more than dust

11.) The players are traveling now because a younger crew has become more popular in the cities so they are traveling to find work

12.) He lets them know that he knows what’s going on and knows the purpose that the king and queen have sent from them

13.) It is an allusion to Jephthah in the bible who sacrifies his daughter out of selfishness, trying to get a higher ranking

14.) Like Pyrrhus we wants to avenge his fathers death. Hamlet is unlike Pyrrhus because of the way they are going about getting their revenge is different. And Pyrrhus is actually in a war while Hamlet is not yet.

15.) Hamlet asks the players if they can perform the Murder of Gonzago and if he can write a couple lines that could be added to the play

16.) He exclaims this because the actor can cry and feel sorry for a made up character when Hamlet just feels empty inside

17.) His plan is that by adding in these lines to the play it with break his uncle down causing him to confess about old king hamlet

18.) One, Hamlet wants to know whether or not the ghost is the devil and two he needs this evidence so people will believe him

19.) Polonius spies on Ophelia and Hamlet, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern spy on Hamlet

20.) Hamlet is rude and sad but gets excited for plays. He is clever and some how seems to know everything that is going on.