Month: October 2016

Glamis, and Thane of Cawdor the greatest is behind. Thanks for your pains

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Dramatic Irony- A dramatic device that allows the audience to be aware of things that some (or all) of the characters in a text do not. For example, in act I scene 4 of Shakespeare’s Macbeth, Macbeth speaks in an aside (to the audience) telling us that he is going to have dispense with the King’s son Malcom in order to become King himself.

Pathetic fallacy- A dramatic device that allows the mood of the characters in the text appearing in the weather of the text. An example of pathetic fallacy in Shakespeare’s Macbeth in act I scene 6 is when the King comes to Macbeth’s castle and they have just won the war and the weather is nice and calm.

Paradox- A dramatic device that allows things that don’t happen at the same time, happen at the same time. An example of paradox in Shakespeare’s Macbeth in act I scene 1 is when the witches quoted “fair is foul and foul is fair” this is paradox because they cannot happen at the same time.

Metaphysics- Is an abstract concept that allows things that have no basis in reality to exist and we cannot prove it to being real. An example of a metaphysical creature would be the witches in Shakespeare’s Macbeth in act I scene 3 the witches vanish, the reason why this is metaphysical is because we cannot prove them to be real and also they vanish in thin air when no physical thing can do that.

Away, and mock the time with fairest show, false face must hide what the false heart doth know.

okay we are going deceive everyone and pretend like we are going to not know and look like we are so upset that it happens in our house but actually deep down we will know who truly did it and our hearts will not lie!

“Besides, this Duncan
Hath borne his faculties so meek, hath been
So clear in his great office, that his virtues
Will plead like angels.”

In this passage Macbeth says how great a king Duncan is because he is stating that even if he gets assassinated today he will be greeted by angels to take him up to heaven because all he did in his life time was treat people with kindness and he was a really good person to everyone and to Macbeth as well.

“then, as his host,
Who should against his murderer shut the door,
Not bear the knife myself.”

In this he is contemplating his murder by saying he as the host should be against the murder of his king and he should be the one protecting him at his house but he is going to be the one holding the knife to kill the king who has done nothing wrong to him at all.