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HAMLET : Speech to the Queen

HAMLET : Speech to the Queen.

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HAMLET : Speech to the Queen

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  1. HAMLET: Speech to the Queen

  2. HAMLET: Look here, upon this picture, and on this,     The counterfeit presentment of two brothers.     See, what a grace was seated on this brow;     Hyperion's curls; the front of Jove himself;     An eye like Mars, to threaten and command;     A station like the herald Mercury     New-lighted on a heaven-kissing hill;     A combination and a form indeed,     Where every god did seem to set his seal,     To give the world assurance of a man:     This was your husband. Look you now, what follows:     Here is your husband; like a mildewed ear,     Blasting his wholesome brother. Have you eyes?     Could you on this fair mountain leave to feed,     And batten on this moor? Ha! have you eyes?     You cannot call it love; for at your age     The hey-day in the blood is tame, it's humble,     And waits upon the judgment: and what judgment     Would step from this to this? Sense, sure, you have,     Else could you not have motion; but sure, that sense     Is apoplex'd; for madness would not err,     Nor sense to ecstasy was ne'er so thrall'd     But it reserved some quantity of choice,     To serve in such a difference. What devil was't     That thus hath cozen'd you at hoodman-blind?     Eyes without feeling, feeling without sight,     Ears without hands or eyes, smelling sans all,     Or but a sickly part of one true sense     Could not so mope. Hamlet Speaking to Gertrude – (3.4. 53-81)

  3. QUESTIONS to Consider: • What do the allusions to the Roman gods Mars and Mercury represent? • What is the importance of the phrase “heaven-kissing hill”? (line 59 on page 90 of the Penguin version) • What is the significance of “mildewed ear”? (line 64 on page 90) • What does the repetition of “have you eyes” (in lines 65 and 67 on page 90) represent? • Are there any lines that reveal Hamlet’s resentment over Gertrude marrying Claudius? • What is the overall significance of this particular passage? • Does Hamlet believe that the Queen feels remorse or even fully comprehends what she has done? • Physical appearance is used as a metaphor for what in this speech?

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