The image of light and darkness are used to highlight good and evil. When Lady Macbeth was attempting to conjure up the courage to go on with the murder, she asks darkness to make her like a man in order to carry out the deed. She is quoted saying “Come, thick night, And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell, That my keen knife see not the wound it makes, Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark, To cry 'Hold, hold! '” The use of darkness in this scene tells the reader just how desperate she is to become Queen. She would go as far as to ask evil to fill her soul with hate and take her remorse in order to gain power.
The play opens as three witches arrange to meet Macbeth upon the Heath. They then meet Macbeth and Banquo after a battle as they were crossing the moor. The witches prophesy that Macbeth will be made Thane of Cawdor and eventually King of Scotland. They also prophesy that Banquo (a companion of Macbeth) will beget a line of Scottish Kings, although he will never be King himself. The witches vanished after the telling of their prophecies to Macbeth and Banquo and leave both men treating their prophecies sceptically until two of Duncan’s general had indeed come to congratulate Macbeth on becoming Thane of Cawdor.
“It was the secrets of heaven and earth that I desired to learn” Victor Frankenstein Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world. “I beheld the wretch, the miserable monster whom I had created” Victor Frankenstein I, the miserable and the abandoned, am an abortion, to be spurned at, and kicked, and trampled on. Have a care; I will work at your destruction, nor finish until I desolate your heart, so that you shall curse the hour of your birth” Monster “I shall be with you on your wedding night” I will pioneer a new way, explore unknown powers, and unfold to the world the deepest mysteries of creation. “Seek happiness in tranquility and avoid ambition”
Faith, here’s an English tailor come hither, for stealing out of a French hose: come in, tailor; here you may roast your goose.— [Knocking.] Knock, knock: never at quiet! What are you?—But this place is too cold for hell. I’ll devil-porter it no further: I had thought to have let in some of all professions, that go the primrose way to the everlasting bonfire. [Knocking.]
Describe the three apparitions that Macbeth sees when he visits the witches. What does each apparition tell him? (sc. 1, 70-95) First apparition- a helmeted head: “Beware Macduff! Beware the Thane of Fife!” Second- a bloody child: “Laugh to scorn the power of man; no man of woman born shall harm Macbeth.” Third- crowned child bearing a tree: “Macbeth will never vanquished be until Great Birnam Wood come up against Dunsinane Hill.” (Dusinane is where Macbeth’s castle is, surrounded by Birnam Wood) 4.
Macbeth Fate or Freewill Is Macbeth’s future as King determined by fate or his own freewill? At the beginning o the play, Macbeth is at war and meets three evil witches in the woods. One witch greets him with the title “Thane of Glamis,” a title he currently holds. The second witch greets his as “Thane of Cawdor,” which is a higher title that he does not hold. And the third witch greets him as “King of Scotland,” yet another title he does not hold.
The devices make a suspenseful, shocking, spine-chilling play. This book is nothing short of ironic; Shakespeare uses the rhetorical device irony all threw Macbeth. For example the thane of Cawdor is killed over committing treason and treachery against the king, only to give the title to Macbeth who plans to commit worst things to the king. The king even goes on to state after killing the thane of Cawdor that “There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face He was a gentleman on whom I built an absolute trust” (I.IV.15). To then put his trust in Macbeth only to be betrayed by him.
They play very prophetic roles, where they predict the past and what the future holds for Macbeth. They appear with sounds of thunder and mysteriously disappear or are swallowed up in a mist. When the three witches predict the fate of Macbeth, it gives the audience a very valuable insight into the fate of Macbeth, making their prophecies a very significant precursor. “When the battles lost and won” (Act 1, Scene 1) was said by the second witch, which says that every battle is won by one side and by the other. Therefore, Macbeth’s fate could be seen as him winning one battle, but losing another, and as we see, he loses the battle of his soul.
When she says "Come you spirits that tend on murderous thoughts, unsex me," and "make thick my blood, stop th'access and passage to remorse," she is already calling on evil spirits to take away her feminine nature, and to stop her feeling any pity, remorse or compassion; Lady Macbeth is determined to assist Macbeth in murdering Duncan. From this early point, it is already evident that she is contemplating, and intends to take part in a murder so that her husband could have the status he had always wanted, but had been too weak to obtain. When Macbeth enters, Lady Macbeth replies: "O never shall sun that morrow see." When Macbeth informs her Duncan will be leaving the following day. Here, she blatantly reveals that she intends to murder Duncan, saying he won't live to see another day.
Blood as a Symbol in Macbeth Macbeth is one of Shakespeare’s most tragic and violent plays. It is only fitting, then, that blood is the main symbol throughout this sad tale. Representing honor, disloyalty, and guilt, Shakespeare uses blood to describe Macbeth’s desire to destroy his king, leading to the eventual downfall of his country. The first mention of blood in Macbeth takes place early in the play. During act 1, scene 2, Duncan notices the injured soldier and states, “What bloody man is that?” This first reference symbolizes honor as the soldier (a sergeant) is returning from battle.