Why might Hamlet ask about Ophelia’s father at this point? (line 141)

Hamlet begins by getting angry when Ophelia returns various love-tokens to him.

Explanation:

After railing at her (’get thee to a nunnery’) he then, perhaps, has a sense that Polonius has put Ophelia up to this, asking ‘Where is your father?’.

After this he condemns her father as a ‘fool’, rails against marriage, and against women generally (‘you jog, you amble and you lisp’).

He then leaves, their relationship fatally damaged and when her father emerges from his hiding place he has no care for her welfare: ‘You need not tell us what Lord Hamlet said; / We heard it all’.

After this there is a brief final meeting with Hamlet in the pivotal scene (3..2), which is laced with sexual innuendo and then the next time we see her (4.5) she has gone mad with grief, following the death of her father.

1. read the following excerpt from franklin d. roosevelt's "fireside chat 19":

on the other side of the picture, we must learn also to know that guerilla warfare against the germans in, let us say serbia or norway, us; that a successful russian offensive against the germans us; and that british successes on land or sea in any part of the world strengthen our hands.

remember always that germany and italy, regardless of any formal declaration of war, consider themselves at war with the united states at this moment just as much as they consider themselves at war with britain or russia. and germany puts all the other republics of the americas into the same category of enemies. the people of our sister republics of this hemisphere can be honored by that fact.  

the true goal we seek is far above and beyond the ugly field of battle. when we resort to force, as now we must, we are determined that this force shall be directed toward ultimate good as well as against immediate evil. we americans are not destroyers — we are builders.

analyze the effectiveness of this excerpt. how does it function within the speech as a whole? how does the structure of the excerpt to convey the speech's purpose and key points? support your argument with evidence from the speech. (10 points)