Hamlet - the character LaertesIn "The World of Hamlet", Maynard Mack describes the interference of a possessive Polonius in the life of his son, Laertes: "The clothes of proclaims the man,” Polonius assures Laertes, cataloging maxims in the young man’s ear as he prepares to leave for Paris. Often, but not always. This is why he sends his man Reynaldo there to investigate the life of Laertes – and even, if necessary, to accuse his son of forgery (“What forgeries will you please”), to better find his way through detours (250). ).Mack describes one of the smallest problems in life that Laertes must face. Son of Polonius and brother of Ophelia, Shakespeare's Laertes must suffer the disappearance of his father and sister during Hamlet. Helen Gardner, by way of overview, compares Laertes to Hamlet and King Claudius in "Hamlet and the Tragedy of Revenge": Hamlet's anguish of mind and indecision are precisely the things that differentiate him from the conspirator gentle and quick Claudius, and the crude, thoughtless Laertes, ready to “dare damnation” and slaughter his enemy in a cemetery. (222) Laertes makes his appearance in the drama after Marcellus, Barnardo, and Horatio have already seen the Ghost and mocked him in an attempt to get him to communicate with them. Horatio and Marcellus emerge from the walls of Elsinore with the intention of seeking help from Hamlet, dejected by the "hasty marriage" to the wife of Hamlet I less than two months after the funeral of Hamlet's father (Gordon 128). After this scene, Laertes is one of several participants in a post-crown social gathering of the Elsinore court. Laertes, like Hamlet's rival Fortinbras (Kermode 1138), comes with his father, Polonius, who manipulates him and his sister (Boklund 122).G. Wilson Knight says: “Instinctively, the creatures of the earth – Laertes, Polonius, Ophelia, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, bond with Claudius: they are of his species” (N. pag.). Claudius pays insincere homage to the memory of his own deceased brother, the former king, and then conducts certain affairs, for example sending Cornelius and Voltemand to Norway to settle the Fortinbras affair. Laertes has meanwhile approached the king, who asks him: “And now, Laertes, what news do you have? / You told us about a trial; What is it, Laertes? Laertes responds: