<span>Ophelia was used by Claudius and Polonius to deal with their problem with Hamlet by making Ophelia as the bait because they Claudius and Polonius wanted to perform a trap with Hamlet. She was instructed to pretend reading a book and be approached by Hamlet who loved her once.</span>
Polonius uses Ophelia as bait in order to determine the validity of Hamlet's madness.
Explanation:
It is in Act 3, scene 1 that Polonius and Claudius are talking about how excited Hamlet is about the players' performance that night and they wonder about the motives for his madness, there is that Ophelia becomes part of the plan as they think that Hamlet will tell her his inner thoughts if they have the chance to speak "alone" while they are in fact being observed from a hiding position.
The term “gothic” is originally applied to works or crafts
that people thought to be bloody tales. The other term for gothic is barbaric. The
history of the word gothic comes from the German tribe which is known to be
barbaric and bloody.
