Textuality » 4A Interacting
The first part of the comparison is handling about hamlet's death father. Now after that Hamlet introduces the other part of comparison: he starts to speak about his uncle ("Here is your husband"). Now Hamlet doesn't use classical mythology to refer to his uncle. As the matter of fact he considers his uncle an inferior husband for his mother. There follows an interrogative sentence ("Have you eyes?") with which Hamlet wants to open his mother's eyes. He wants to underline the deep difference between the two men. After that there is another association: ("could you on this fair mountain leave to feed, and batten on this moor?"), here Hamlet compares his father to a fair mountain and his uncle to a moor.
Following there is an exclamation ("Ha!") and the repetition of the previous interrogative form ("Have you eyes?"). He refers to his mother and you can understand again that he is very angry and offended.
In the following lines Hamlet explains to his mother his disconcerted and perplexity for her choice. Therefore Hamlet asks himself "what judgment would step from this to this?". The reader can immediately understand that he is really incredulous and that he doesn't want to believe in his mother's choice. He can't find a rational and possible solution.
After that he speaks about his mother's sense. Hamlet says that the mother has surely emotions but he thinks that they are paralyzed. In the following lines Hamlet makes an association: he speaks about the madness. It is a relevant choice because it underlines the negative stupefaction of Hamlet.
After that you find the word "devil": Hamlet tries to find a possible solution for the incredible choice of his mother; he blames on the devil. He says probably that because he can't find another possible solution.
In the following lines Hamlet uses words connected to senses: eyes, feeling, sight, ears, hands and smelling. He goes on to explain other possible reasons. Hamlet tells that his mother couldn't make this choice also having part of her senses and not all of them.
Hamlet makes an exclamation: "O shame!" so the reader can understand his angry. Then he makes a question: "where is thy blush?" because he would like to see his mother's embarrassment. After that Hamlet refers to "hell" and you can notice a particular semantic field because of the presence of words like "hell", "flaming", "wax", "fire", "ardor" and "burn". They refer to fire, to passion. "And reason panders will" means that the reason follows wish.
After that Hamlet's mother, called Gertrude, speaks. She says to Hamlet not to speak more. She suffers because in listening Hamlet's words she recognizes her faults. She understands he is right but she prefers not to listen to him.
In the following lines Hamlet speaks again and he is very angry. He doesn't accept that his mother doesn't want to listen to him because he wants to say everything that he thinks. In these lines he uses bad words to summarize the negative qualities of the new husband: "rank sweat", "enseamed bed", "corruption" and "nasty sty".
Then the mother answers: she says again to Hamlet not to speak more. She makes an association: she compares Hamlet's words to daggers. It means that she feels guilty. Hamlet's words are daggers for her because he is telling the truth.
In the following lines Hamlet goes on saying the negative qualities of his uncle. He says that he is a murderer, a villain, a slave, a vice of kings, a cutpurse of the empire and the rule and a thief. Hamlet is very directly but he is telling only the truth.
You can understand that he is very angry and aggressive.
The mother tries to interrupt him saying "No more!" because she is suffering for the truth.
Hamlet ends saying that his uncle is "a king of shreds and patches". This last sentence underlines the badness of the new King.