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Through her his life was dishonoured, and his death violent and premature: unhuzled, disappointed, unaneled, he woke to the air not of his orchard-blossoms, but of a prison-house, the lightest word of whose terrors would freeze the blood of the listener. What few men can say, he could that his love to his wife had kept even step with the vow he made to her in marriage; and his son says of him
There was not only natural sorrow there, occasioned by the disappearance of her daughter, but the shame which resulted from her fall and her infamy; and though last not least, the terrible apprehension that the hapless girl had rushed by suicidal means into the presence of an offended God, "unanointed, unaneled," with all her sins upon her head.
And, for manner and tone, compare the speeches of Pheres in the Alcestis, and Jocasta in the Phoenissae, with those of Claudio in Measure for Measure, and Ulysses in Troilus and Cressida. The Greek dramatists were somewhat fond of a trick of words in which there is a reduplication of sense as well as of assonance, as in the Electra: So Shakespeare: "Unhouseled, disappointed, unaneled";
I sat myself by her side; and as I contemplated her pale face, and witnessed her grief, I fell into a train of melancholy retrospection on my numerous acts of vice and folly. "How many warnings," said I, "how many lessons am I to receive before I shall reform? How narrowly have I escaped being sent to my account `unaneled' and unprepared!
On the other hand, his adherence to old dogmatic views can be deduced from the fact of his being so terribly impressed by the circumstance of his father having had to die Unhousel'd, disappointed, unaneled; a fact recorded with a threefold outcry: Oh, horrible! Oh, horrible! most horrible!
In the speech of the Ghost in the second quarto otherwise of well-nigh identical contents with the one in the first edition there is only one new line, but one which deserves the closest consideration. It is that which we have quoted Unhousel'd, disappointed, unaneled. The effect this statement has on the course of the dramatic action we shall explain later on.
And it will be noted, moreover, that the ghost emphasises the treachery of which he has been the victim, in that he was sent into eternity "unhouseled, unaneled," as though momentary acts can make up for years wasted and misspent.
And her eyes get moist, for she means it more or less; but next day she catches a cold and refuses food, saying that all her bones ache and her head is revolving; then the horror of dying among strangers, "unhouseled, disappointed, unaneled," proves too much for the faithful creature, and she disappears without notice, leaving her darling and its mother to look out for another Ayah.
The hitherto moderated grief of the wife arose to a pitch much wilder than the death of her husband could, under ordinary circumstances, occasion. To die without absolution to pass away into eternity "unanointed, unaneled" without being purified from the inherent stains of humanity was to her a much deeper affliction than her final separation from him.
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