Word play
there are two different types of word play that Shakespeare uses in Macbeth, one of them is personification. personification means when you give a human characteristic to an object. There are 7 personifications in he whole of the play in Macbeth. one is this “Stars, hide your fires! Let not light see my black and deep desires”. To be honest there are not many pieces of personification and there are about 100 scenes in Macbeth and only seven personifications. next is
DRAMATIC DEVICES
Soliloquies
Okay so now we move on to soliloquies there are quite a phew soliloquies in the whole play. I will show you the soliloquy that Macbeth uses before he killed Duncan;” Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee. I have thee not, and yet I see thee still. Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible To feeling as to sight? or art thou but A dagger of the mind, a false creation, Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain? Now that is an amazing example for a soliloquy
Dramatic irony
Dramatic irony is when the whole audience knows a sort of secret but only one or two characters in the play know the secret; sometimes about five characters know the secret at once. The best piece of dramatic irony in my eyes is when king Duncan says he trusts Macbeth but he knows hes got his eye on the crown which makes Macbeth feel bad because he knows what he wants and the person he want’s it from is the person that trusts him. this plainly shows that every piece of dramatic irony is proving that it makes the play Macbeth twice as more interesting if not thrice as more.
Appearance about Macbeth
at the beginning of Macbeth we don’t even know anything about him because he has not arrived i the play yet. when we first see him we think of him as an amazing noble warrior that is invincible and cannot be defeated which obviously would make king Duncan want to award him. Later in the play we see he true evil side of Macbeth with his desires to become king of Scotland and ultimately means killing king Duncan which is treason. this prove that Macbeth wants it so bad; as the saying goes ‘if you really want something you will do anything to get it’.
Foreshadowing
foreshadowing is when someone makes a prediction on a future event and at that point of the prediction comes true. One example of this is when Macbeth is with the three whiches and the three apparitions come up and say two things and they are
- ‘Macbeth you will not die by a man born of a woman’
- ‘Macbeth will not die unless the woods of Birnam wood move’
Ending of Macbeth
WOW JUST WOW; The end of the play is just so unpredictable so Banquo is not born yet (in a way)
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