Be sure to check out this scene, staged by the awesome actors at This is Hamlet.Polonius orders his daughter to stop seeing Hamelt, and Ophelia agrees to obey her father's wishes. He also says she's anĀ idiot if she actually believes any of Hamlet's lines. He tells his daughter that Hamlet only wants to sleep with her.When Ophelia said it was about Hamlet, Polonius doesn't beat around the bush. When Laertes finally leaves, Polonius asks what they were talking about.Their dad enters and gives his son a lot of long-winded advice: listen more than he talks to not borrow or lend money not to bling himself out (he actually says not to be gaudy) and, famously, "This above all, to thine own self be true.".In other words, if he's telling her not to sleep around outside of marriage, he better be holding himself to the same standard. Horatio, a scholar and a friend of Prince Hamlet, first assured the guards that ghosts did not exist.
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The ghost appears for many consecutive nights, therefore the guards decide to ask for help. On a dark, dreary winter night a couple of watchmen encounter a ghost wearing armor.
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