Hamlet: Spying

Part I of Essay
Spying is a way of deceiving one another. In Shakespeare's Hamlet, the Prince of Denmark and Claudius do not trust each other. Polonious begins to spy on Hamlet to fulfill the wishes of the King of Denmark, Claudius. The timing of the spying is ironic. The two character ....

Part II of Essay
.... of the time Hamlet does his own spying. He tries to force Ophelia to give him information, but she ends up lying to him in ACT III Scene i. Hamlet: Get thee to a nunnery. Why wouldst thou be a breeder of sinners? I am myself indifferent honest, but yet I could accuse me of such things that it were better my mother had not borne me: I am very proud, revengeful, ambitious, with more offenses at my beck that I have thoughts to put them in, imagination to give them shape, or time to act time in. What should such fellows as I do crawling ....