1. Summary: The scene starts with Laertes telling Ophelia that she should stop seeing Hamlet because he won't be able to stay with her. He also tells her not to sleep with Hamlet. Then Polonius gives advice to Laertes, and Laertes leaves for school. Polonius forbids Ophelia to talk to Hamlet and she says that she will not.
2. Questions: Will Ophelia actually do what her father tells her to do concerning Hamlet? Would Hamlet actually stop seeing Ophelia just to enter into marriage with a different girl for the betterment of Denmark? Polonius - Do you have something against Hamlet?
3. Quotations: Ophelia says to Laertes "But, good brother/ Do not, as some ungracious pastors do,/ Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven,/ whiles like a puffed and reckless libertine/ Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads,/ And recks not his own rede." She makes this statement after he gives her advice. She is bascially saying that if he had better follow his own advice if he is going to give it to other people. This is rather cool because she is calling him out and saying that if she can't do the things he is telling her not to do, neither can he.
Polonius says to Laertes "Beware/ Of entrance into a quarrel, but being in,/ Bear't that th'opposèd may beware of thee." This advice is sort of cool because he is telling his son that it is best not to fight but if you have to make sure that you teach the guy who are fighting with that it you aren't one that he wants to get in fights with because you will hurt him. This is rather violent way of handling yourself but it would keep people from messing with you pretty well.
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