| Is this a dagger I see before me, the handle toward my hand? | Macbeth soliloquy; Line 44-45He sees a hallucination of dagger. It is a way of showing mental turmoil over the act of murder. |
| With Tarquin’s ravishing {strides,} towards his designMoves like a ghost. Thou and firm-set earth, | Literary Device: Allusion and Similie |
| Sleep that knits up the raveled sleave of care, | Literary Device; PersonificationSleep that knits up the tangled threads of care |
| The death of each day’s life, sore labor’s bath, | Literary Device; Metaphor |
| Balm of hurt minds, great nature’s second course, Chief nourisher in life’s feast | Literary Devices; Metaphors |
| Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood | Literary Device; Allusion |
| No, this my hand will rather The multitudinous seas incarnadine,Making the green one red. | Literary Device; Personification |
| Confusion now hath made his masterpiece.Most sacrilegious murder hath broke opeThe Lord’s anointed temple and stole thenceThe life o’ th’ building. | MACDUFF to Macbeth to Lennox; Acene 3; Line 76-79Literary Device: Personification He’s actually talking about Duncan |
| O gentle lady,’Tis not for you to hear what I can speak.The repetition in a woman’s earWould murder as it fell. | MacDuff to Lady Macbeth; Literary Device: Irony She’s a wicked lady |
MacBeth Act II Literary Devices
July 31, 2019