2007-02-18 08:23:21 · 4 answers · asked by Billy 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Theater & Acting
IN reference to anywhere in Act ONE*******
2007-02-18 09:15:37 · update #1
You want to read Act 3, scene iv; Hamlet's speech beginning: "Look here, upon this picture, and on this..."
He's showing his mother PICTURES of his father (Hamlet) and his uncle (Claudius) side-by-side, and comparing the two men.
If you read the speech, you'll have all the information you need.
2007-02-18 09:08:44 · answer #1 · answered by shkspr 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hamlet calls the King...."Bloody, bawdy villain! / Remorseless, treacherous, lecherous, kindless villain!" (2.2.580-581).
Hamlet believed his father to be virtuous...In act 3 he compares the two...Hamlet the father and Claudius...he says of his father (in common english) he has a commanders eye, curls like Hyperion (he was the lover of Alexander the Great and a great beauty himself)...he feels his father was a good looking, wise, virtuous man...Claudius, on the other hand, he likens to a mildewed ear...in other words, he is saying that his falsity of character makes him ugly, unacceptable...that all that his father was, his uncle is not. He calls him a viper, a drunkard, and lecherous at different times in the play.
2007-02-18 16:47:34 · answer #2 · answered by aidan402 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
check out sparknotes.com. It's a free website that has scene by scene info and character descriptions for Shakespeare
2007-02-18 17:16:21 · answer #3 · answered by gingersnap 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think it's "A little more than kin, and less than kind."
If I'm wrong, forgive me.
2007-02-18 16:35:28 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋