Hamlet+2.1

"This is the very ecstasy of love,/ whose violent property destroys itself" (2.1.114-115) Love can be a powerful, overwhelming, and dagerous emotion. Ophelia's brother is worried that Hamlet may do something drastic because his love has begun to drive him mad. Polonius did not realize Hamlet actually loved Ophelia, and now he is worried hwat Hamlet's lust for Ophelia's love will do to him. His violent love may destroy itself, or himself. "and finding/ By this encompassment and drift of question/ That they do know my son" (2.1.11-13) This quote is very curious. Polonius does not want his son, or anyone else, to know he is looking for his son. Does no one know his son is gone? Should he not be looking for his son? Has his son been banished or did he run away? is he not trusting of his son, or everyone else? "That they may seem teh taints of liberty" (2.1.36) Polonius wants his messenger to make it seem like all his son's faults and scandals are due to his freedom, due to the fact that his father let him have too much liberty and he did not know what to do with it? Is this true? If not, why does he want to lie? Is he protecting his son, or himself from embarassment? He does not want his son to look bad, so he is taking all the blame for his son's misdimenours on to himself, calling it bad parenting.