The king questions him about his feelings, but his mother assures the king that his actions appear to be normal. He starts yelling and screaming at his mother when she justifies his actions. He states that his actions and grief are sincere and that he is truly grieving his father's death. What infuriates Hamlet so much is that his mother says his actions “seem” real. «It seems, ma'am! no, it is; / I don't know, it doesn't seem like it. / It is not only my inky cloak, good mother, / Nor the usual clothes of solemn black, / Nor windy gasps of forced breathing, / No, nor the fruitful river in the eyes, / Nor the dejected bearing of the face, / Together with all the forms, the moods, the forms of pain, / That can truly denote me: these indeed seem, / Because they are actions that a man could perform. / But I have what is shown inside, / These are but the ornaments and clothes of pain”