Read Hamlet’s descriptioBoth historical and feminist criticisms look for repeated words and ideas. are concerned with language and form. seek to understand the role of gender in a text. connect literature to the society it was written in.n of his mother from Act III of Hamlet. And melt in her own fire: proclaim no shame When the compulsive ardour gives the charge, Since frost itself as actively doth burn, And reason panders will. What motif is used in these lines? heat and coldness, love and hate, mother-child relationships, passionate relationships