Polonius is sure that Hamlet has gone mad with love for Ophelia.
See these lines by Polonius in Act 2 scene 1:
~Polonius: Come, go with me! I will go seek the King;This is the very ecstasy of love,...Ophelia: ...
I did repel his letters, and denied
His access to me.Polonius: That hath made him mad;~
So Polonius thinks Hamlet is suffering from the "ecstasy of love" for Ophelia, which has driven him mad.
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Polonius doesn't understand Hamlet's wit. When he hears Hamlet speak seeming nonsense and acting disrespectful, he jumps to the wrong conclusion. He thinks Hamlet's gone crazy due to being rejected by Ophelia, and Hamlet cultivates this misunderstanding.
Throughout 'Hamlet', Polonius is convinced that the reason for Hamlet's madness is because he has forbidden his daughter, Ophelia, from seeing or talking to him. Ophelia is Hamlet's love interest, and thus being unable to contact her would seem to Polonius like a spot on assumption for Hamlet's sudden onset of madness.
Polonius claims that it is because Hamlet has fallen madly in love with Ophelia.
Polonius claims that Hamlet's madness is brought about by the fact that Ophelia has avoided contact with him. Polonius thinks that Hamlet is love-sick for his daughter.
He thinks it is because Ophelia, on Polonius's orders, spurned Hamlet's amatory advances.
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A. Gertrude---------Queen of Denmark B. Polonius----------Murdered by Hamlet C. Ophelia-----------Daughter of Polonius D. Claudius----------King of Denmark
Ophelia tells her father polonius that her boyfriend Hamlet has gone insane.
Polonius expects Laertes, when he is in Paris, to spend his time in pubs, brothels and gambling dens. He sends Reynaldo to spy on him and observe all his faults, and presumably to report back to Polonius. Why does Polonius do this? Because he loves spying on people. We will see him use this technique on Hamlet later on.
If you are asking what he means, then he is referring to Polonius "fishing" for information about Laertes and Hamlet.Answer:Some writers relate Hamlet's reference to Poloneus as a fishmonger to another reference to Ophelia as a fishmonger's daughter. In the slang of the time, fishmonger's often were pimps for their daughters. Polonius used his daughter to get in with the King and the nobility - perhaps Hamlet was referring to this. In other parts of the play Hamlet was trying to shed Ophelia as a companion and insulted her. This reference and allusion could simply be a carryover from those insults.