My personal experiance Polonius advices in my life

1. Would Polonius advice affect you?

Polonius advice has an inspirational tone for many readers. As any father would advise, Polonius told Laertes to keep control of his tongue and actions, make good company and try not to borrow from your loved ones. Polonius also advised his son to have a few close friends and have a respectful distance in relations. I agree to this because having many friends does not get you more support in times of need. It is better and wiser you have friends that help you in times of need. These advices seem to be a piece of wisdom for me. However, I would disagree with what Polonius tells about the implications of borrowing. Borrowing, as in my case, has not always been source of discomfort provided I returned the money on the promised time. And the best source is always my friends and relatives. They never let me down whenever I was out of cash. In fact, my aunt loaned my school tuition when there were nobody to help. Polonius is however, true when he says when must be cautious while spending as extravagance could be dangerous for ones character. This could also lead one to borrowing from others; lowering ones self-respect and producing strife in relations.

2. Compare Laertes's reception of his father's advice to your own reception?

Since the play has it that Polonius advices were being disregarded by himself, there is less to expect from Laertes. Those advices then merely represent the precepts of the time; similar to how a worried mom advises her daughter leaving for school. Although they proved hypocrite for the Polonius mundane actions, they nevertheless held a great amount of truth as they exist in the norms of the society. The topic of 'youth' suggests a natural connection with good advice: the older generation seems to find it irresistible to advise the young (Duggan 35). In romances, the giving of advice often takes a very specific form. The young person — most often male, and usually the hero too, has just reached the point where he is about to leave his own family, the familiar society in which he has been brought up. At the very moment at which he reaches the threshold, he is stopped and given what sometimes amounts to several pages of good advice on how to conduct himself in the outside world. The precision of the convent ion can he seen with particular clarity in a Life hut thoroughly familiar example: Polonius's advice to the departing Laertes in Hamlet (Duggan 42). The way in which the giving of advice disrupts the schedule for departure is here made explicit to the point of parody.

But despite this hurry, Polonius still insists on giving his son 'these few precepts in thy memory', which indeed make up one of the longer speech of the play. As advice goes, Polonius's is not at all bad: it amounts to a fairly comprehensive economic, socia1 ...