Wednesday, April 20, 2016

Macbeth 101

Dramatic irony:
when the audience knows something the character doesnt


Soliloquy:
when character is thinking for a long time and changes his mind many times. Ends with a heroic couplet.


Heroic couplet:
at the end of a solilioquy means decision has been made,  two lines in iambic pentameter that rhyme

Hear it not Duncan for it is a knell 
That summons thee to heaven, or to hell


Foil:
Character that follows the same path as the pretagonist but makes different choices. Ex: Banquo and Macduff to Macbeth.


3 devices used in the play:

Supernatural

Nature imagery

Blood and gore


Theme of the play: Power and corruption

Nature imagery, supernatural, and blood and gore are all symbolic of the theme power and corruption.

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