DRJ #3

Initial Reaction: In act 3, the character reminds me of the world; reality. Men and woman anticipate wrongly about themselves. Not showing their affection out and hiding it inside of what they really feel. One woman that does it all makes all woman one of them. Like how Hamlet says about woman “whore”. People taking revenge, my father had told me; there is no need to take revenge. Let God take care of it. Proving of their guilt is not necessary so let them suffer themselves. Even if we do not see it on our own eyes, the world have a big eye.   

Character Analysis: Polonius is making himself a idiotic character in this act. He is also getting a lot of lame recommendation to the rest of the characters that is completely hilarious of himself. Especially when the play starts, he makes a fool out of himself. Polonius a man who always uses long speech which in the play, play his part that he talks a lot and he interfere the play just to say that that whoever that actor is playing is not that kind of person and so on.

Theme Analysis: Shakespeare uses expresses deception toward all the characters, especially toward Hamlet. In this act the deception starts off Claudius. A problem of still searching why Hamlet is feeling sad and then Claudius went on expressing his guilt over his wrong doing on a side “O heavy burden!” (3.1.55). His guilt of killing Hamlet’s father. At first Hamlet reveals his deceit to Horatio about taking revenge when he saw the ghost. Again in act 3 he did it again reveals his deceit to Horatio their “judgments join/In censure of his seeming” (3.2.79-80). Here they are watching over Claudius during the play to see if he is over reacting. In scene 3 Polonius deceive to Hamlet, “Behind the arras I‘ll convey myself/ To hear the process.” (3.3.), so he is secretly spying on them to know their business. This for Polonius foolish himself, he misleading himself to death here. Therefore a foreshadowing of Polonius’s death.