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DIacumin - The closet scene - verse 10 to 36
by DIacumin - (2011-02-07)
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Hamlet starts describing his uncle’s portrait showing her mother how much King Hamlet was better of Claudius. According to that Hamlet says that is like a diseased ear of corn that blasts his wholesome brother: it means that the actual King is not only worse than King Hamlet, but that he also infects the image of his brother of a good king. Then Hamlet starts rebuking again his mother and he says that she comes down from a very high position to a lower position because she has married Claudius, a bad man that has murdered his father and that has taken power in Denmark. Going on Hamlet rebukes again his mother because it can’t be love what he feels, because the heyday in her is tame and humble, and passion isn’t as stronger as in the past. Then Hamlet says that her senses couldn’t have motion because they are paralyzed. Although  he rebukes her for these things, he says that it could be a devil that has chosen his heart without watching who were that person, his mother in this case. So hamlet continues saying that her senses are in confusion and they can’t work together. The main aim of this monologue is to show to the reader Hamlet’s inner feelings and thinking of his mother: Hamlet thinks that his mother is so corrupted that she can’t understand that she has already got married to a really bad person that has already murdered his previous husband and taken his power in society. In this part Hamlet wants also to show his mother that her senses are crashed and as a consequence she has done a really bad thing that has corrupted his soul and also that if a devil can mutiny a married and older woman, all things are lost.