primy nature, Forward not permanent, sweet, not lasting," (I. iii. 8). Using the violet flower, Laertes compares it to Hamlet's love for Ophelia. Just like a cut flower, his love will be sweet in the beginning. Eventually a cut flower dies just like Hamlet's crush on Ophelia. Laertes frequently offers advice to Ophelia only out of love for his sister and protection. Laertes uses that brotherly right yet again in saying, "Perhaps he loves you now, And now no soil nor cautel doth besmirch The virtue of his will;" (I. ii. 18). Laertes cautions Ophelia into accepting the empty promises of love from Hamlet. The soil represents Hamlet's love and how it has no seed so that his love could never blossom. Ophelia states, "Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads And recks not his own rede." (I. ii. 54). Ophelia tells her brother, Laertes, to follow the advice he has given to her. She tells him that he lives a primrose path while she takes the thorny path to heaven. A primrose path is a life of ease and pleasure. Primrose are flowers and implies that the path is full of flowers which lead to happiness. Polonius degrades Ophelia, his daughter, in saying "Affection, puh! You speak like a green girl" (I. iii. 110). Polonius compares Ophelia to a growing flower. A flower starts as a green bud before blooming. Ophelia talks about what she is too young to know. She is a young green flower who has not bloomed into the knowledge of women. King Hamlet's ghost calls out to Hamlet and tells him "And duller shouldst thou be than the fat weed That roots itself in ease on Lethe wharf," (I. v. 39-40). After King Hamlet died and entered into the underworld, he crossed the river Styx, but never crossed the Lethe. The Lethe, is the river of forgetfulness in which passing, makes you forget your previous life when entering in the underworld. The ghost has rooted himself be
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