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A 6 page paper in which the writer identifies several comic scenes in Hamlet, demonstrates how Shakespeare was able to weave humor into this very heavy play, and discusses what this interplay of humor and melancholy says about Shakespeare's own philosophy. No additional sources cited.
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realized that several hours of such unrelenting angst would be a bit much for the audience to take. For this reason he strategically placed several humorous scenes to provide much-needed
comic relief. This paper will examine several of those scenes, demonstrate how Shakespeare was able to weave humor into this very heavy play, and discuss what this interplay of humor
and melancholy says about Shakespeares own philosophy. The first comic scene, Polonius advice to his children, is primarily funny because Polonius himself is funny. Laertes is leaving for France, and
naturally his father wants to have a few last-minute words with him before he goes. But Polonius is very garrulous, and a few last-minute words turn into a list of
nearly every platitude in the English language. Be friendly but not overbearing; make new friends, but keep the old; dont fight, but if you do, fight to win; take advice,
but reserve your judgment; better one good suit than ten bad ones; "neither a borrower nor a lender be;" "to thine own self be true;" and on, and on, and
on. At Polonius second "Farewell!" Laertes takes him at his word, and leaves rapidly. No sooner has Laertes gone than Polonius starts on his daughter Ophelia. Seizing on a chance
remark that Laertes and Ophelia had been discussing Hamlet, Polonius starts into a long dissertation on Ophelias lack of experience in love. Ophelia protests that Hamlet "hath, my lord, of
late made many tenders/ Of his affection to me" (I,iii,99-100). Polonius finds in this an occasion for a cluster of bad puns on the word "tender"; "Think yourself a baby/
That you have taen these tenders for true pay/ Which are not sterling. Tender yourself more dearly;/ Or -- not to crack the wind of the poor phrase,/ Running
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