Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Macbeth: Act 1 - Scene 1
- Setting
- "Thunder and lightening"
- Pathetic Fallacy
- foreshadows the dark and dismal events to come
- establishes a omnious atmosphere
- "A desolate place."
- Connotations
- harsh
- dark
- unfriendly
- bare
- Imagery
- "In thunder, lightning, or in rain?
- Pathetic Fallacy of the tri-colon
- establishes a omnious atmosphere
- foreshadows the dark and
dismal events to come
- "Fair is foul, and foul is fair;
Hover through the fog and filthy
air.
- aliteration (f/f/f)
- soft, creepy, disturbing sounds
- emphasises contradiction between the
stereotypical harsh witches and these soft
witches.
- aperance is not reality
- something is not as it seems
- foreshadowing Macbeth's betrayal
- meaning: beautiful is disgusting and
disgusting is beautiful
- Juxtaposition
- everything is muddled up
- Contradiction
- emphasises the difference in the
witches (they're soft not harsh)
- Structure
- "When shall we three meet again?"
- rhetorical question
- draw in the audience
- "When the battle's lost, and won.
That will be ere the set of sun."
- rhyming couplet
- normally given to characters high in the
hierarchy system (e.g monarch)
- there is something out of place
- the witches play an important role in the play
- Language
- "shall"
- strongest verb