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Hamlet act I
scene ii
What are the two dominant metaphors in these
lines?
I understand that Hamlet was being
sarcastic towards Claudius and Gertrude when he spoke these lines but I'm not sure about
the answer to the question above. Could anyone be so kind to offer me an
answer?
"Seems, madam? Nay, it is. I know not
seems.
'tis not alone my inky cloak, good
mother,
Nor customary suits of solemn
black,
Nor windy suspiration of forced breath,
No, nor the fruitful river in the eye,
Nor the dejected havoir of
the visage,
Together with all forms, modes, shapes of grief,
That
can denote me truly. These indeed seem,
For they are actions that a man might
play;
But I have that within which passeth show,
These but the
trappings and the suits of woe."
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