THE CLOSET SCENE

In this scene we have Hamlet speaking with his mother. He’s showing her two pictures: one is his father’s picture and the other is his uncle Claudius picture.
Hamlet exchange of dyalogue is very long, there is a very frequent use of the imperative: Hamlet is very angry with his mother and uses a very aggressive tone in his speech (“look here”, “see”, etc.); in addition Hamlet exploits the structure of a list to collect and compare the differences between the two characters (“heaven kissing hill”, etc.); he also uses a climatic effect (at the end of the list he says “this is your husband”). In presenting the different features of his mother’s new husband, Shakespeare doesn’t use the climatic effect of the previous presentation. Indeed, to tell the truth he starts with the expression “there is your husband” (here is = ecco).
All the features Hamlet makes his mother notice are negative (“blasting”, “this moor” in contrast with “this fair mountine”).
The use of rhetorical questions (“have you eyes?”) underlines/ hilights/ bring to surface Hamlet’s idea that his mother in unable to distinguish the real qualities of the two men.
In addition, Hamlet cannot accept that his mother may love Claudius. Besides, being an adulescent, he thinks that at his mother’s age passion should have disappeard (“for at your age the hey-day in the blood is tame”).