Macbeth uses loads of different ways to interest the audience in to see the play Macbeth. He uses different device such as language features, narrative techniques, dramatic devices and much more. I will now go in to detail about these individually.

First of all Shakespeare talks about the language devices in Macbeth here are some of the specific language devices in Macbeth such as personification, metaphor, pathetic fallacy. Shakespeare uses the language feature personification. Personification is when someone describes something that is not living as something living Shakespeare uses an example in Macbeth were it creates tension so the audience is interested in the play Macbeth.”is this a dagger i see before, the handle towards my hand? In Macbeth there is a scene where Macbeth imagines a dagger leading him to kill the current king, King Duncan. The reason why this is personification is because a dagger cant lead you because a dagger is not a living thing so it cannot move on its own and since it is being described as something leading Macbeth it is being personified. This is one way the audience is interested in Macbeth because it creates tension and people start to imagine what is wrong with the actor because a dagger cant lead you people will think has the actor gone mad and it interests the audience.

The next language device Shakespeare uses is pathetic fallacy. Pathetic fallacy is when the setting or emotion of a person sets the scene. This is a really good language device to get the audience interested in the play Macbeth. Shakespeare gives you an example where this is used in the play Macbeth. “Duncan’s horses turn’d wild in nature, broke their stalls, flung out and made war with mankind” When the king Duncan is killed everything turns upside down when I mean upside down there are bad things going on outside such as animals eating other animals, really dark and scary, wind starts blowing and gives a dramatic effect to the scene. Everything turns all dark and mysterious at this point. The audience is interested in this because it gives an effect in the play.

The last device Shakespeare uses is metaphors. Metaphors are when a living thing is described as something not living it is the opposite of personification.Shakespeare gives you an example of a metaphor in Macbeth.”unsex me here and fill me from the crown to the toe top full of direst cruelty” In Macbeth, lady Macbeth says fill me in with direst cruelty and put a lead on it so nothing can come out. She is referring to as herself being a bottle with a lead on with bad things inside her. The audience will be interested and ask questions why she would be doing this and why she is saying these stuff the audience will be interested in Macbeth.

Shakespeare gets his audience interested in Macbeth by using different dramatic devices one of which is a soliloquy. A soliloquy helps us understand the characters ambition the audience get to travel inside the mind of the character and understand their thoughts this is how Shakespeare interests the audience.

In Macbeth, lady Macbeth reveals her ambition. she wants to become a man and she wants to be full of evil and she does not want any light to come in. Here is a part of the soliloquy “Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark, to cry hold hold.”

Lady Macbeth is letting her darkest desires out and says she does not want to be good any more. This is a soliloquy because she is talking to the audience and no one else and the audience gets interested because now they wonder what she will do next and they have now discovered lady Macbeth true personality.

Shakespeare uses another device to interest the audience he uses the props and costume. the reason why it interests the audience is because when you use props such as a dagger people feel tense because what will you do with that. would you kill someone? kill yourself maybe? who knows the audience will have to wait and find out. Shakespeare uses costume to symbolize the characters true features of their personality. He uses darkness on the clothing of the witches to symbolize the witches darkness and evil in them.

Shakespeare keeps his audience engaged in Macbeth through the use of Narrative techniques one of which is dramatic irony were the audience know something that the characters in the play do not know. This increases the tension of the audience because the audience know something which the characters in the play do not know so the audience will ask themselves if the characters in the play will ever find out?

When Macbeth reveals to the audience his darkest desires which is to kill the king he uses this as a quote “let not light see my darkest and deep desires” now the audience gets interested here because they will ask themselves these questions. why is Macbeth saying these things he is loyal to the king? will the king ever find out? will it be to late to stop him? will he change his minds? the audience will just have to wait and see so this interests the audience because they wont know what will happen until the end of the play or at least when the time comes in the play.

These are all things Shakespeare uses to keep his audience interested in the play Macbeth. He uses language features, dramatic device and narrative techniques to keep his audience interested and he uses much more.