1. Act. I, Scene II: Hamlet's Soliloquy
In the beginning, Hamlet and Ophelia's relationship seems like an ordinary dating couples"; Hamlet makes "many tenders of his affection" on her, as well as "importuning [her] with love in an honorable fashion" and making "almost all the holy vows of heaven." (1.3) However, Ophelia is then frankly told by both her father and brother, whom she dearly loves, that Hamlet does not actually love her, that she is not good enough for him, and his only purpose in wooing her is to steal away her pure, precious virginity. ... Hamlet then comes to her one night, perhaps mad ...
Polonius eventually offers his last piece of advice saying, "This above all: to thine own self be true, / And it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man." ... You speak like a green girl, / Unsifted in such perilous circumstance. / Do you believe his tenders, as you call them?" ... Then he says, "Marry, I will teach you: think yourself a baby; / That you have these tenders for true pay, / Running it thus- you"ll tender me a fool." ...
That night she does not sleep and says, "I can recall a quiet place, I think, not so very far from here Shadow Point " (p.139). ... Claudius says, "Hamlet, this deed, for thine especial safety "Which we do tender as we dearly grieve For that which thou hast done "must send thee henceWith fiery quickness. ...
What might be towards that this sweaty haste doth make the night joint laborer with the day? ... As Hamlet commented when the army of Norway passed through, Witness this army of such mass and charge, led by a delicate and tender prince, whose spirit with divine ambition puffed makes mouths at the invisible event, exposing what is mortal and unsure to all that fortune, death, and danger dare, even for an eggshell. (4 4 51-56) From his comment, that showed that Norway had nearly returned to its former glory. ...