Read the excerpt from act iii of hamlet. polonius: my lord, he's going to his mother's closet: behind the arras i'll convey myself to hear the process; i'll warrant she'll tax him home; and, as you said, and wisely was it said, 'tis meet that some more audience than a mother, since nature makes them partial, should o'er-hear the speech, of vantage. fare you well, my liege: i'll call upon you ere you go to bed and tell you what i know. polonius's character is complex in the excerpt because he represents suspicion. he is loyal to king claudius. he predicts hamlet's behavior. he practices deception.