Month: October 2016

or why Upon this blasted heath you stop our way With such prophetic greeting? Speak, I charge you.’  – Shows he is strong in mind and not scared by the unknown.

‘Come what come may Time and the hour runs through the roughest day.’  – Shows he is not bothered wether he becomes king or not and is leaving it in fates hands.
‘The Prince of Cumberland! that is a step On which I must fall down.’  – Shows he is ambitious about becoming king and really wants it.
‘Who should against his murderer shut the door, not bear the knife myself.’  – He is ambiguous and does not really know if he should kill the king who he believes is a good man.
‘No, this my hand will rather the multitudinous seas in incarnadine, making the green one red.’   – He is feeling so guilty that he thinks even if he washed his hands in the ocean then the ocean will turn red from blood.

A Paradox is when a statement or proposition is very unreasonable but when investigated it may prove to be true.

“Fair is foul, foul is fair. Hover through the fog and filthy air.” This is a paradox because fair can’t be foul and foul can’t be fair as they are two completely different things.

Metaphysics is when you act like something or someone is real. It may or may not be real but normally is not.

A example is when the three witches are introduced in the beginning of the play telling Macbeth three prophesies. “He will be thane of Cawdor, thane of glams and king.” These prophesies introduce Macbeth into the ideas of greatness, he will eventually follow through killing king Duncan, this brings the idea of fate.

Pathetic fallacy is when the mood in a peice of the play is interpreted by the weather and natural environment.

An example is in Act 1 Scene 1, “Fair is foul, foul is fair. Hover through the fog and filthy air.”

This is an example of pathetic fallacy as this quote has shown how the mood of the play being “foul” interpreted by the weather being ” foggy and filthy”.

– A dramatic device allows the audience to be aware of things that some (or all) of the characters in a text do not know. For example, in Act 1 Scene 4 of Shakespeare’s Macbeth, Macbeth speaks in aside (to the audience) telling us that he is going to have to dispense with the Kings son Malcolm in order to become king himself.