Shakespeare is a writer that has many great stories like “Hamlet”, “Julius Caesar”, “The Tempest”, and many more, but Shakespeare's stories have similar themes and plots with other famous books. That is the case of the story “Macbeth” and “The story of the fall” from Genesis chapter 3. In both of these stories, the greed and ambition of mankind affects both sets of characters and plots of the Bible story and “Macbeth”. However, the good comparison, Shakespeare used in “Macbeth” from the Bible really gives Shakespeare an excellent creation of suspense, irony, and theme on “Macbeth”.
In many stories around the world, there is always one or many characters that make bad decisions, which leads them to bad consequences at the end. This …show more content…
This is true for “The story of the fall” and “Macbeth”. In “Macbeth” Shakespeare uses dramatic irony in many occasions during the play. For example, in Act 1 Scene 5, Lady Macbeth tells Macbeth: “Look like the time; bear welcome in your eye, your hand, your tongue: look like the innocent flower, but the serpent under't". In this occasion we know the Macbeth's are going to kill King Duncan but the king doesn't know he's in a trap and we know that the Macbeth's are being hypocritical with the king's treatment, giving the story a good sense of irony. It becomes suspenseful because Macbeth knows that he is going to do a bad thing, but also wants to be the king, so he has an internal conflict and the reader is waiting to see what Macbeth's decision is going to be. On the other hand, in “The story of the fall” the author uses dramatic irony and suspense when the Serpent tells Eve the results of eating the fruit of good and bad. We know that the Serpent is fooling Eve and inducing her to make a bad decision, but Eve doesn't know, which takes the story to suspense because we don't know what she is going to do. She might be obedient to God or fall in the false promise. As can be seen, the use of suspense and dramatic irony proves that the “Macbeth” story is related to “The story of the fall” and makes it interesting to
In many stories around the world, there is always one or many characters that make bad decisions, which leads them to bad consequences at the end. This …show more content…
This is true for “The story of the fall” and “Macbeth”. In “Macbeth” Shakespeare uses dramatic irony in many occasions during the play. For example, in Act 1 Scene 5, Lady Macbeth tells Macbeth: “Look like the time; bear welcome in your eye, your hand, your tongue: look like the innocent flower, but the serpent under't". In this occasion we know the Macbeth's are going to kill King Duncan but the king doesn't know he's in a trap and we know that the Macbeth's are being hypocritical with the king's treatment, giving the story a good sense of irony. It becomes suspenseful because Macbeth knows that he is going to do a bad thing, but also wants to be the king, so he has an internal conflict and the reader is waiting to see what Macbeth's decision is going to be. On the other hand, in “The story of the fall” the author uses dramatic irony and suspense when the Serpent tells Eve the results of eating the fruit of good and bad. We know that the Serpent is fooling Eve and inducing her to make a bad decision, but Eve doesn't know, which takes the story to suspense because we don't know what she is going to do. She might be obedient to God or fall in the false promise. As can be seen, the use of suspense and dramatic irony proves that the “Macbeth” story is related to “The story of the fall” and makes it interesting to