Spying On Hamlet Analysis

In Act II Claudius, Polonius, Gertrude and even Ophelia spend their time spying on Hamlet to find out his true disposition. This is dramatic irony since we and Hamlet know something significant while the other characters do not. Polonius, the father of Ophelia, whom is the lover of Hamlet, comes to a conclusion that Hamlet is mad from neglected love. Polonius assumes this as he used Ophelia as a bate for him to trap Hamlet. Also, here it seems as Polonius and Claudius are in this together to plan something against Hamlet as Claudius does not want him to live. Polonius goes to tell Claudius he has “found” out the cause of Hamlet’s madness. Here, all those characters listed above are trying to succeed something and that is by spying on Hamlet. Claudius portrays antipathy from the beginning of the play, by marrying his brother’s wife and being insensitive at Hamlet’s mourning of the loss of his Father. Additionally, certainly these characters do not care for Hamlet since they did not only to try to expose him but also started spying on him to find out the reason behind Hamlets madness. Especially Claudius and Polonius this far in the play, they certainly do not want Hamlet around. While, from the beginning the audience feels sympathy for Hamlet since his father had been murdered, the ghost of his father revealed to him a truth not
He is always plotting a scheme and eavesdropping. Polonius seems the type of man that only speaks but doesn’t mean it, since he says unhesitantly, that one should be true to oneself and never deceive another man, which is ironic due to the fact he is always up to something and planning his next move to trap someone just like