What does Ophelia tell Polonius in regards to Hamlet's behavior?

tells her
father exactly whatexpected she would tell him.is using Ophelia; he wants Kingto start being
nervous about him, and he knows that if he acts weird to his girlfriend, Ophelia, she will tell
her father, . And Hamlet knows that, since Polonius is an advisor to the King, he will
straightaway tell Claudius everything Ophelia has told him.

Of course you
could say, Why doesn't Hamlet just go kill Claudius? Why does he take this roundabout approach
to revenge? Well, that a question for another time. Let's just say, for now, that Hamlet is a
schemer and a planner and a thinker, more than he is a doer. Indeed, he would rather act at
doing something than really do something.

Here, then is all of what Ophelia
relates to her talkative old man about Hamlet's behavior, his wordless conversation with her,
(from Act 2, Scene 1):

OPHELIA:

My
lord, as I was sewing in my closet,

Lord Hamlet, with his doublet all
unbraced,

No hat upon his head, his stockings fouled,

Ungartered, and down-gyved to his ankle;

Pale as his shirt, his
knees knocking each other,

And with a look so piteous in purport

As if he had been loosed out of hell

To speak of horrors, he comes
before me...

...He took me by the wrist and held me hard;

Then goes he to the length of all his arm,

And, with his other hand
thus o'er his brow,

He falls to such perusal of my face

As
he would draw it. Long stay'd he so.

At last, a little shaking of mine
arm,

And thrice his head thus waving up and down,

He
raised a sigh so piteous and profound

As it did seem to shatter all his
bulk

And end his being. That done, he lets me go,

And with
his head over his shoulder turn'd

He seem'd to find his way without his
eyes;

For out o' doors he went without their help,

And to
the last bended their light on me.

Oh, how very dramatic
stuff! But it's just a little play acting on Hamlet's part. We will see later in this act and
especially in Act 3, how fond Hamlet is of plays and players.

Yes, in a lot
of ways Hamlet is a play about playing at acting without actually
acting.