Lies and Deception

Question 1

Polonius likes to dish out advice - hypocrisy in spying on children and Hamlet to gain favour with Claudius. No meaning , carelessly handed out.

Answer 1

“This above all: to thine ownself be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.”

Question 2

Polonius in collision with Claudius over deceiving Hamlet

Answer 2

“At such a time I’ll loose my daughter to him:
Be you and I behind an arras then;
Mark the encounter:”

Question 3

Hamlet’s old friends try to deceive him, but Hamlet sees right through it.

Answer 3

“You were sent for; and there is a kind of confession in your looks
which your modesties have not craft enough to colour:
I know the good king and queen have sent for you”

Question 4

poison ultimately brings down the main deceiving characters of Laertes , Claudius etc. poison deception turns against them , as expressed by Laertes

Answer 4

“I am justly kill’d with mine own treachery”

Question 5

Claudius is aware of his own implications of his scheming and lies. associates women with deception.

Answer 5

“[Aside] O, ‘tis too true!
How smart a lash that speech doth give my conscience!
The harlot’s cheek, beautied with plastering art,
Is not more ugly to the thing that helps it
Than is my deed to my most painted word:
O heavy burthen”

Question 6

Hamlet knows that Ophelia has been used as bait by Polonius as a spy.

Answer 6

HAMLET
“[…] Where’s your father?”
OPHELIA
“At home, my lord.”
HAMLET
“Let the doors be shut upon him, that he may play the
fool no where but in’s own house. Farewell.”