Essay
Imagery is used to describe a situation in such a way that a reader can get a sense of what is happening. It can be conveyed in a form of a picture, smell or even sound. Imagery is used in Macbeth to help the reader visualize it as if they were in the scene themselves. Imagery is also used to drive the play due to its significance in the book. One of the major example of imagery used it light and day. It does not only give us the image of the time, but also a reason to believe that something will happen. For example, dark is often used to describe evil, destruction, sins or loss. Light or day is used for heavens, god and the complete opposite of evil, good.
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“Who did strike out the light?” (III.iii.27-28). This shows us that murder is being done in the darkness where people can’t see the actions that they are doing and think that they can hide in the night.
Another part of imagery is Insanity. Insanity shows us that the character still has a “little bit of human” in them. Even after committing all these sins, the character has guilt of their actions. The two characters that go insane because of their guilt are Macbeth and Lady Macbeth. Madness is also used to represent the idea of self-destruction and ultimately leads to the downfall of Macbeth. Macbeth can’t sleep at night because he is culpable of the death of the king and disturbing the natural order of who gets to be the king. “Still it cried, “Sleep no more!” to all the house. “Glamis hath murdered sleep, and therefore Cawdor Shall sleep no more. Macbeth shall sleep no more.” (II.iii.54-57). We can see that Macbeth is guilty about the murder of Duncan. He can’t sleep because the voices in his head keep saying that he has murdered sleep, and now he won’t be able to sleep himself. He can’t stand to look at what he had done. “I’ll go no more: I am afraid to think what I have done; Look on ’t again I dare not.”
Imagery is used to describe a situation in such a way that a reader can get a sense of what is happening. It can be conveyed in a form of a picture, smell or even sound. Imagery is used in Macbeth to help the reader visualize it as if they were in the scene themselves. Imagery is also used to drive the play due to its significance in the book. One of the major example of imagery used it light and day. It does not only give us the image of the time, but also a reason to believe that something will happen. For example, dark is often used to describe evil, destruction, sins or loss. Light or day is used for heavens, god and the complete opposite of evil, good.
Light and dark is used to foreshadow what is happening in the act. Darkness …show more content…
“Who did strike out the light?” (III.iii.27-28). This shows us that murder is being done in the darkness where people can’t see the actions that they are doing and think that they can hide in the night.
Another part of imagery is Insanity. Insanity shows us that the character still has a “little bit of human” in them. Even after committing all these sins, the character has guilt of their actions. The two characters that go insane because of their guilt are Macbeth and Lady Macbeth. Madness is also used to represent the idea of self-destruction and ultimately leads to the downfall of Macbeth. Macbeth can’t sleep at night because he is culpable of the death of the king and disturbing the natural order of who gets to be the king. “Still it cried, “Sleep no more!” to all the house. “Glamis hath murdered sleep, and therefore Cawdor Shall sleep no more. Macbeth shall sleep no more.” (II.iii.54-57). We can see that Macbeth is guilty about the murder of Duncan. He can’t sleep because the voices in his head keep saying that he has murdered sleep, and now he won’t be able to sleep himself. He can’t stand to look at what he had done. “I’ll go no more: I am afraid to think what I have done; Look on ’t again I dare not.”