QUESTION: Explore Shakespeare’s use of language effects and dramatic devices and how they reveal the action of ambition on the character Macbeth or Lady Macbeth.
INTRODUCTION IDEAS: 1) Roadmap to the structure of the essay 2) Set context 3) Capture the reader’s attention through language
*Lost Humanity Ideas: 1)Macbeth loses his humanity and compassion when he kills Macduff’s family just because he knows it will hurt him dearly. 2) Failing to listen to his conscience and ends up killing Duncan which plays a big part in him eventually losing hope. This is because he didn’t want to kill him at first but once he had he couldn’t turn back.
**Lost Humanity Quotes:”The castle of Macduff I will surprise, seize upon fife, give to th’ edge o’ th’ sword his wife, his babes, and all unfortunate souls that trace him in his line.” “The bell invites me. Hear it not, Duncan, for it is a knell that summons thee to heaven or to hell.”
*Symbols (blood, guit) Ideas: 1)When Macbeth killed Duncan, he stared at his body and described his blood as golden and this shows that he thinks of him as a good person that didn’t want him to die but his body overruled his conscience and carried him through to killing him. 2)When Macbeth walks towards his destination for murder, he mentions the ground and is asking for it not to hear him walking. This is giving the ground and the Earth the sense of hearing which is a human characteristic. This proves that he is feeling guilty and doesn’t want to get caught.
**Symbols (blood, guilt) Quotes: “Here lay Duncan,His silver skin laced with his golden blood” “Thou sure and firm-set earth,Hear not my steps, which way they walk, for fear Thy very stones prate of my whereabout, And take the present horror from the time.”
perform evil actions Ideas:Killing of banquo an attempt of fleance,
**perform evil actions Quotes: “Here lay Duncan,His silver skin laced with his golden blood” “The castle of Macduff I will surprise, seize upon fife, give to th’ edge o’ th’ sword his wife, his babes, and all unfortunate souls that trace him in his line.”
*Loses his mind Ideas: Paranoia, Killing of Banquo and his son Fleance
*Paranoia Quotes: “The moment on ’t for ’t must be done tonight and something from the palace; always thought that I require a clearness”
Killing Quotes: “and with him (To leave no rubs nor botches in the work) Fleance his son, that keeps him company, whose absence is no less material to me than is his father’s” This is straight after last quote above.
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