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This 3 page paper discusses some of the settings of “Macbeth” and their impact. The settings include the battlefield, the castle and Birnan Wood. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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Birnan Wood with regard to their functions and how they enhance the play. Discussion The settings that Shakespeare uses for his shortest tragedy are bleak and harsh: a castle, a
battlefield, a wood-all suggesting darkness, stone, blood and a strange atmosphere where anything is possible, including three witches prophesying a mans fate. The castle is important for two major reasons.
First, "Shakespeare obviously considered it of great importance for Macbeth to be present when the Kings bloody body was found, and he must have considered it equally important for Macduff
to be the one to make the discovery" (Delaney 6). This meeting of the two men is important because it is the only time in the play they appear together
until they fight to the death at the end (Delaney). The discovery of Duncans body became an example of theater at its best and most dramatic: Macduff is shouting, the
alarm bell is ringing, and all the important cast members rush onstage from wherever they were sleeping, most of them barefoot (Delaney). The scene would not be nearly as effective
without the "guild-ridden murderer" (Macbeth) present, trying to throw suspicion on the guards (Delaney 6). The reason Macbeth can be there, without explanation or question, is that this is his
castle, and it is a fitting backdrop for his awful crime. In addition, the fact that the castle belongs to Macbeth is important because the tradition of hospitality is an
ancient one, and almost sacred. Whether it is stated or not, there is an understanding that one person does not harm another who is a guest under his roof. Macbeth
violates that ancient law: Macbeth is a man "who has assassinated his king, his cousin, the guest in his house" (Bell 13). The castle is also the site of the
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