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What can you conclude about Polonius's character from the words he spoke-and you interpreted-in his "farewell speech" to Laertes In Act I, iii?​

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Using what Polonius said in his "farewell speech" to Laertes in Act 1, scene 3, we can conclude that he is a meddler, always poking his nose in everybody's business.

Introducing the concept this way creates a sense that he is almost entirely incapable of recognizing other people's separate personalities; he can only imagine others as having the same motives and desires as himself, to the point that he tells his daughter "what to think".

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According to "farewell speech" we can consider Polonius an intromedite, uncomfortable and inconvenient perosnagem because he intrudes on matters to which he was not called. He likes to get involved in everyone's affairs and does not consider people's feelings and personality, because he believes that everyone should think and act in the same way as him. Besides, he doesn't care that the selfish way he acts has bad results, even if it affects his family.

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