Hamlet 1.3 - 1.4

Act 1 scenes 3-4

1) What is Laertes advice to Ophelia?
2) How does “The canker galls the infants of the spring/ too oft before their buttons be disclos’d” fit into the ideology of the decaying garden?
3) What analogy does Ophelia give to her brother as an answer to his advice? What does she mean?
4) List five of the “few precepts” that Polonius gives to Laertes.
5) In lines 105-109, what is the metaphor that Polonius uses to describe Hamlet’s words of love?
6) List and explain one metaphor found in the lines 115-135.
7) What is Polonius’ command to Ophelia?
8) In scene 4, what is Hamlet talking about in lines 13-38?
9) Why doesn’t Horatio want Hamlet to follow the ghost?
10) What is Hamlet’s command to the three guards?