The closet scene

(lines 15 - 36)

Lines 15 - 19: 

Hamlet is very angry with his mother and he can not accept his mother's love towards Claudius. He is making her rhetorical questions because he already knows the answers: he is saying her that she can not call it love, that she could not have fallen in love with Claudius at her age, and that he is not able to accept that se can feel excitement yet.

With these strong and harsh words Hamlet wants his mother to realize and understand that he loves her and that he is jealous of Claudius.

Lines 20 - 24:

Hamlet is saying his mother that she should have senses and that nothing else could have lighted her unnatural love for Claudius, but sure senses were paralyzed, and madness has caused her mistake; he also says that senses would never be such slaves to the hallucination that they were not able to choose between the two alternatives.

Lines 25 - 29:

Moreover he asks her what has happened in order to confuse her senses and make them deciding what they preferred. To say his mother this, Hamlet uses the metaphor of "the game of blind man's buff", saying that her senses were confused and not able to keep any information of what they had in front of them.

Lines 29 - 36:

After Hamlet's "lecture", he accuses his mother to shame, because in his opinion incest is a shameful, awful and a horrible thing. Moreover Hamlet compares his mother's feelings to a rebellious hell and he says her that she should mutiny in a rebellious way; he adds that flaming should change in wax and melt in her own fire without proclaiming shame and that the irresistible passion gives her the charge, as burning frost.

Finally Hamlet, referring on his mother's actions, underlines that reason procures and makes what passion desires.