Language techniques: Macbeth

setting and mood
1. Creates a dark supernatural atmosphere
2. dark atmosphere foreshadows Macbeth's dark future
  1. tragic hero always has a fatal flaw (ambition; lust for power)
Imagery
1. Metaphor
  1. "Fair is foul and foul is fair"
2. Similie
3. Personification
4. creates pictures and images
5. references to blood, darkness and disease
Themes
1. Guilt
  1. hallucinations
  2. Insanity
2. Loyalty and betrayal
  1. Lack of trust
3. Ambition
  1. L.Macbeth's lust for power
4. Supernatural
  1. Paradox
  2. Darkness
5. Contrast
  1. Macbeth's inner struggle
Dramatic Irony
1. what effect does it have on the audience?
2. soliloquies cause tension for the audience
3. which characters seem false
Paradox
1. links with the supernatural
2. values are reversed: good and bad; strong and weak
3. creates confusion and mystrey
4. False appearances -> L.Macbeth
Foreshadowing
1. effect: creates tension
2. witches predict what is going to happen
3. their prediction foreshadows and causes Macbeth's downfall
Symbolism
1. Blood: Guilt
  1. "the murder may have passed, the blood remains"
2. Sounds
  1. changes mood
  2. Storm = witches
Form, Structure and Plot
1. Dream scenes
  1. Lady Macbeth
2. Fast pace
  1. chaotic: shows characters state of mind
    1. things are moving too quickly to process

Resource summary

	Created by arnya_lewis over 10 years ago