Nature Imagery:
When THE MURDERER says FLEANCE ESCAPED: (The moment/The context)
When the murderer tells Macbeth Banquo is dead, Macbeth is happy, but then the murderer tells Macbeth fleance escaped, he is angry. If he would've been killed as well, everything would be perfect. - act 3 scene 4 page 2 line 25
Shakespeare used nature imagery to represent what he wanted in juxtaposition to what actually happened.
Blood & Gore:
When THE MURDERER says to MACBETH ABOUT BANQUO:
Aye my good lord safe in a ditch he bides... with twenty trending gashes on his head - reason why the murderer tells Macbeth this is to convince macbeth that Banquo is dead. - act 3 scene 4 page 2 line 25
Supernatural:
When MACBETH says TO LADY MACBETH WHEN THEY ARE FIGHTING:
The time has been that when the brains were out the man would die and there an end. - act 3 scene 4 page 5 line 80
Macbeth explaining that the ghost of Banquo is right there.
Beware macduff
None born from a woman can kill Macbeth
He can only be defeated when Burnam wood comes to dunsinane castle
Eight guys that look like Banquo and all wearing a crown, last one is Charles 1st
Macbeth Essay
"Dagger of the Mind" In the play Macbeth, the main character, is corrupted by the thought of power he would get if he was King. After the witches tell him "All hail Macbeth, the hereafter King" he trusts them because once they have been right about him being thane of Cawdor. The thought of being King just made him want it so badly he ended up committing regicide. This led him to becoming King and wanting even more, trying to kill anyone other then his children who might end up on the throne after he will die.
"Bound to saucy doubts and fears" The author of the play, Shakespeare, uses Nature Imagery because nature is always going wrong because of the theme power and corruption and to express the feelings the characters have, "I had else been perfect, whole as a marble, founded as the rock, as broad and general as the casting air". With this, the author is explaining Macbeth would've been happy with how the things would've turned out if the murderers killed Fleance as well. But because they didn't, he feels as if he is "cabined, cribbed, confined".
Shakespeare is also using Supernatural abilities to make the play more interesting and entertaining, "The time has been that when the brains were out the man would die and there an end". This quote is referring to ghosts, and how if you killed someone they would just die, but that time passed, and now people wake up from the dead as ghosts, haunting those who killed them. This is effective as people like super-abilities and things that wouldn't normally happen in real life.
"Courage to make the love's known" the author uses Blood and Gore in the play Macbeth because everyone who watched his plays at that time enjoyed seeing death and blood. "Their daggers unmannerly breeches with gore", this quote is right after King Duncan is killed, and it says that the dagger they used to kill King Duncan with was full of blood. The play is full of death and that's why people love it so much.
"The service and the loyalty I owe in doing it pays itself" The play has lots of examples of dramatic irony as well, where we know that the character means something totally different then what it said. "More is thy due than more than all I can pay" this is where Duncan thanks Macbeth for his actions, but what he doesn't know is that Macbeth is planning on killing him just so he can become king himself. This is a great example of dramatic irony, since the entire audience knows what Macbeth has in mind.
All the way through the play we have been following 3 MOTIFS, Blood & Gore, Supernatural, Nature Imagery, and all of these are symbols of Power & Corruption.
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