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A 3 page essay that discusses features of Shakespeare’s “Macbeth.” The writer discusses examples of figurative speech, major images and the scene in Act IV with Lady Macduff and her son. No additional sources cited.
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properly! Examples of figurative language "Macbeth" begins with three witches and their plans to meet Macbeth after the battle (the "hurlyburly"-I.i.3)
in which Macbeth fights is concluded. They conclude by chanting, "Fair is foul and foul is fair/Hover through the fog and filthy air" (I.i.11-12). This use of alliterative speech conveys
the meaning that all is not as it seems. The next scene pictures Macbeth as a hero, fighting for King Duncan, but the witches have already warned the audience not
to trust this perception. Another example of figurative speech is when Macbeth imagines that he sees a dagger floating in the air and pointing the way towards King Duncans
chamber. "Is this a dagger which I see before me,/The handle toward my hand? (II.i.33-34). This causes Macbeth to question the reliability of his senses and his "heat-oppressed brain" (II.i.39).
This image conveys the ambiguity he feels towards his murderous task and the guilt that will plague him afterward. When he describes the deed to Lady Macbeth, he says that
he thought he heard "a voice cry/Sleep no more!/Macbeth does murder sleep" (II.ii.35-36). This personification pictures "killing" an abstraction that foreshadows the guilty conscious that will plague him throughout the
rest of the play. Major images in the play (clothes, light/darkness, sleep) Clothes: There are several instances throughout the play when Shakespeare uses clothes as a metaphorical image that
conveys how Macbeth relates to his circumstances. For example, when Macbeth is addressed as the Thane of Cawdor in Act I, he asks why the messenger dresses him "In borrowd
robes" as the Thane of Cawdor still lives (I.iii.109). Later in the same scene, Macbeths new title is described by Banquo in terms of clothing-"New honors come upon him/Like our
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