1) Laertes was warning Ophelia to stay away from Hamlet because he is royal and can't really choose who he loves, but if he ever not royal and stills loves you then it is true love. He doesn't want Ophelia to get hurt by Hamlet so his advice is to stay away from him.
2)They are comparing Ophelia to a flower, and the canker galls as worms. Worms can destroy flowers before they even bloom relating to the decay of garden.
3) she says she will protect her heart and will take his advice, but tells him not to be a hypocrite because she knows what he does when he goes to France.
4) Do not speak your thoughts and don't be quick to act on them, don't be vulgar, don't dress to fancy, be nice to people but not to nice, once you find friends that you trust hold on to them, don't pick fights, listen to people but don't talk a lot.
5) That Ophelia is a foolish little baby for believing Hamlets offers are something real. He also says to give her self more respect and that if she is with Hamlet he will be a laughing-stock, he is thinking more about himself then her.
6) "when the blood burns, how prodigal the should lends the tongue vows. These blazes daughter giving more light then heat, extinct in both even in their promise as it is a making." He is saying that when he is on fire he will keep saying things he doesn't really mean and that when his heart is on fire it gives out more light then heat and the fire will be out before he is done with his promises. A heart can't be on fire and him living and making all these promises.
7) He commands her to not be with Hamlet or even see him.
8) He is saying that it's his heritage to drink and he should be drinking but doesn't want to because that's all people know them for. They are known for drinking and being drunks and that hides all the great achievements they have made, and that one little thing you do wrong can destroy everything good you have done.
9) He is worried that the ghost isn't actually King Hamlet and that it's the devil and he will drive Hamlet into madness.
10) He tells them to let go of him and if holds him back he will kill them.
Kaylie - look at question 6. The blood burns is actually passion or lust, and it is this that makes Hamlet say romantic things (light), but that these romantic things don't contain the "HEAT" or the truth of real love. It's a harsh warning. Note that in a metaphor a=b. So that the FIRE = something other than fire.
ReplyDelete9/10.