In the passage, Act 3 Scene 4 lines 54-88, Shakespeare uses compare and contrast, repetition, and many rhetorical questions to express the feeling Hamlet has towards his mother. These devices help to give off a tone of anger and disbelief, with a dash of mockery.
Shakespeare has Hamlet compare and contrast between the late king’s photo and the current king’s photo. The details used to explain his father is completely positive while when he explains his uncle’s photo the description is negative. Hamlet portrays his father to be have many characteristics of a God, “Hyperion’s curls, the front of Jove himself,/ An eye like Mars to threaten and command,/ A station like the herald Mercury” (57-59) while his uncle, Polonius, is described, “like a mildewed ear” (65). Hamlet is trying to get his mother to admit that she didn’t marry Polonius out of love, but out of craziness. Later on he accuses his mother of going from a “fair mountain” (67) to a “moor” (68). Expressing that she could have found someone better then his uncle; as well as how bad his uncle is compared to his dead father.
The word eyes is repeated multiple times and is stated in a question twice. “Have you eyes?” (lines 66 & 68) Hamlet is talking to his mother, Gertrude, and asking her if
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The kind of anger where you laugh out of disbelief that they don’t see what’s so wrong with the situation. “And what judgement/ Would step from this to this?” (71-72) Hamlet at this point is so worked up that he begins to ask his mother deep questions. He wants to understand how his mother could go from such an amazing husband to this piece-of-crap of one. Later he goes to ask her, “O shame, where is thy blush?” (82) Hamlet just needs his mother to understand why it is that he is so upset, but she isn’t seeming to understand, so he begins to mock her. Expressing that her actions were stupid and she did it in such a