My high school English teacher said the speech was parental cliches. (Which supports the interpretation that it's showing the hypocrisy of all the adults aroun

My high school English teacher said the speech was parental cliches. (Which supports the interpretation that it's showing the hypocrisy of all the adults around troubled Hamlet). "Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel; But do not dull thy palm with entertainment Of each new-hatch'd, unfledged comrade..." http://shakespeare.mit.edu/hamlet/hamlet.1.3.html http://shakespeare.mit.edu/hamlet/hamlet.1.3.html But maybe I'm just influenced by childhood memories of that Gilligan's Island episode where the castaways all stage an opera of Hamlet. (Where Polonius is played as a doddering parent by the Skipper...) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXId5jOTxdg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXId5jOTxdg