He tells Gertrude that it cannot be love because she is to old to have the passion and to be excited , so it must be lust and luxury that she is feeling. He asks her what type of person would marry Claudius and forget Hamlet . He goes on saying that even if Gertrudes has got senses they are paralyzed because she could not prefer Claudius to her previous husband and thus she isn' t able to distinguish the good from the bad. Hamlet asks her what kind of evil has deceived her in this game of blindman's bluff, what kind of devil put a blindfold on her. Hamlet believes that all her senses have gone, but that even if she did have part of her senses then she wouldn't be so confused. He believes that if the devil can encourage the worser nature of the older generation to rebel against their better judgement, then they have no right telling the younger generation what to do. Hamlet explains that in circumstances like these virtue becomes a soft wax melting in the fire of youthful ardour and, that reason acts as a pander to lust. "frost itself as actively doth burn" hamlet wants to say with this that anything has sense anymore, because this metafore is referred to the inability of gertrude sense to recognize that claudius is long less vitues of her previous husband.