Hamlet belittles his mother

After Hamlet’s father’s death, Hamlet belittles his mother by aggressively and skillfully attacking his mother with clever word games. Hamlet manipulates his words to target his mother’s wrongness with being with Claudius. Moreover, Hamlet tortures his mother with his cleverness and resorts to the thought of killing Claudius even if Claudius and his mother are together in the same bed. Hamlet makes sly comments about their relationship, pointing out his issue with the situation: “your husband’s brother’s wife;” Signifying the wrongness in their relationship/situation. Also, Hamlet criticizes his mother’s age and judges his mother’s relationship based on this element: “You cannot call it love; for your age.” He says that his mother’s love shouldn’t be lust. Furthermore, the Queen then becomes apprehensive about Hamlet’s word games and resorts to the idea that he might hurt her rather than Claudius: “What wilt thou do? thou wilt not murder me?”