Patterns Of Imagery In Macbeth
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Shakespeare's Macbeth is full of different types of imagery. Many
of these images are themes that run throughout the entire play at different
times. Five of these images are nature, paradoxes, manhood, masks and
light vs. darkness.
Nature:
"Thunder and lightning." This is the descript ....
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.... might mean that the witches are bad or foul ("filthy
air") creatures.
In Act II, Scene i, it is a dark night. Fleance says, "The moon is
down" (Line 2), and Banquo says, "Their (Heaven's) candles are all out
(there are no stars in the sky)." (Line 5) Darkness evokes feelings of
evilness, of a disturbance in nature on this fateful night. It creates a
perfect scene for the baneful murders.
Another disturbance in nature comes from Macbeth's mouth, "Now o'er
the one half-world ....
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