It Was A Dark And Stormy Night There is no better way to add mystery and tension to a scene, than weather. Any reader can think of at least one story that uses weather as a motif. A great example of this motif would be in William Shakespeare's Macbeth, where the weather becomes a crucial indicator of misfortune. An example of this motif would be the bad weather that occurred when Duncan was murdered in the story of The Tragedy of Macbeth. The reader can see this motif in the following scene: “The night has been unruly. Where we lay, our chimneys were blown down, and , as they say, lamentings heard i’ th’ air, strange screams of death…” (Shakespeare 2.3.48-50). The character Lennox is describing the extraordinary strength of the wind and
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One can clearly see that this particular motif was used often in the story of Macbeth. However, this motif can be seen in real life as well. The motif of bad weather used in The Tragedy of Macbeth can also be found in the events of The Perfect Storm and The Tragic Story of Minot’s Ledge Lighthouse. Although these two events seem very different, they are actually quite similar. The example of the motif in The Perfect Storm can be seen …show more content…
The Tragic Story of Minot’s Ledge Lighthouse also feature horrible events that share a similar motif with the story of The Tragedy of Macbeth. The Minot’s Ledge Lighthouse is the devastating event that caused multiple unnecessary events of murder caused by the rough storms that would continuously collapse the lighthouse. In the following line, the reader can see the damage that each storm would inflict: “ A storm on March 16, 1851 caused the lighthouse to rock so severely that the keepers had to take shelter down in the lower store room for days...no one could see the lighthouse as it toppled in the waves. Joseph Antoine’s body washed up on [the] Nantasket Beach that morning. Joseph Wilson’s body was found on a tiny Gull Island…” (Patrick Browne 4). Both the storm in the story of Macbeth, The Perfect Storm, and The storm in the Minot’s Ledge Lighthouse tragedy all possess serious and damage to buildings and the preventable deaths of people living in or around each event. The motif of bad weather is easily shown in each event through the pure damage each storm had on the people and the environment around the storm. Some say, that the voices of the victims of the
One can clearly see that this particular motif was used often in the story of Macbeth. However, this motif can be seen in real life as well. The motif of bad weather used in The Tragedy of Macbeth can also be found in the events of The Perfect Storm and The Tragic Story of Minot’s Ledge Lighthouse. Although these two events seem very different, they are actually quite similar. The example of the motif in The Perfect Storm can be seen …show more content…
The Tragic Story of Minot’s Ledge Lighthouse also feature horrible events that share a similar motif with the story of The Tragedy of Macbeth. The Minot’s Ledge Lighthouse is the devastating event that caused multiple unnecessary events of murder caused by the rough storms that would continuously collapse the lighthouse. In the following line, the reader can see the damage that each storm would inflict: “ A storm on March 16, 1851 caused the lighthouse to rock so severely that the keepers had to take shelter down in the lower store room for days...no one could see the lighthouse as it toppled in the waves. Joseph Antoine’s body washed up on [the] Nantasket Beach that morning. Joseph Wilson’s body was found on a tiny Gull Island…” (Patrick Browne 4). Both the storm in the story of Macbeth, The Perfect Storm, and The storm in the Minot’s Ledge Lighthouse tragedy all possess serious and damage to buildings and the preventable deaths of people living in or around each event. The motif of bad weather is easily shown in each event through the pure damage each storm had on the people and the environment around the storm. Some say, that the voices of the victims of the