| “dark night strangles the lamp “ | symbolizes the evil that has come over Scotland |
| Lennox comments on how “unruly” the stormy night was when Duncan was killed | pathetic fallacy sets an uneasy atmosphere |
| A falcon has been savagely killed by an owl | flacon symbolizes Duncan , Owl symbolizes Macbeth |
| horses have been eating each other | unnatural – foreshadows Macbeths men will turn against him |
| Duncan uses extended metaphor of plants e.g. “plant thee ” and “make thee full of growing” | to show its his duty to nurture people who are loyal to him |
| Lennox wants to “drown the weeds” | metaphor- compares Macbeth to a weed as he’s preventing anything from growing , destroying land |
| “Fair is foul and foul is fair” | paradox- incantation sets atmosphere for the whole play , we are witnessing the creation by witches of a reversal in the ordinary nature of things- environment for the whole play(right-wrong good-bad bright-gloom) gives play directionwitches could also be referring to themselves – they look ugly but the predictions they offer Macbeth are beautiful |
| Macbeth/ lady Macbeth hide behind nature “look like the innocent flower but be the serpent under it” | metaphor-L.M encourages him to play the perfect host to the king so no one will suspect his intentions (deceitful)- parallel to adam and eve |
Macbeth-nature/unnatural quotes
August 10, 2019