My favorite scene in Hamlet

From my point of view, the most interesting scene in Hamlet is when Polonius went to talk with Prince Hamlet and was duped by him. In that scene, Prince Albert describes him as a fishmonger. Polonius is an antique person and tedious old foul who talks a lot and against the relationship between Ophelia and Hamlet. He doesn’t know Hamlet was making fun of him, instead, he thinks what Hamlet says proved his guess, which is Hamlet is mad (insane).

       In this scene, Hamlet pretends to be mad so that he can see very clear how others real attitude to he. Whether they really love him or respect him just because he is a prince. Polonius talk with him with an aim. He thinks every sentence Hamlet has said proved his guess. He only under the word meaning of fishmonger, but the truth is Hamlet is saying that Polonius is not a honest man. “For if the sun breed maggots in a dead dog, being a god kissing carrion…” Hamlet said so. Shakespeare uses metaphor to describe Polonius is a dead dog, which is no use and disgusting, only maggots like him. He also describes Claudius as sun. Sun kisses dead dog because it breed more maggots, so does Claudius, he makes Polonius do things for him because he is an obedient lackey. Neither of them are good guy. Polonius is scared and worried, Hamlet is angry and mocked.

      The reason why I like this scene is because Hamlet pretends to be mad and saying madness but he is not, he actually clearly knows why Polonius came for him. Polonius is not that clever. Also, he was controlled by his thinking, which is Hamlet gets mad because Ophelia doesn’t response.  When they are talking, Polonius keeps applauding with Hamlet without thinking the true meaning of his words. When Hamlet talks about fishmonger, he only thoughts about the basic meaning. This scene clearly shows how fatuous Polonius is and how important metaphor is for a literature.