William Shakespeare was an English poet, playwright, and actor from the 1500s. He had written 38 plays in his lifetime, and of those plays he wrote the great tragedy, Macbeth (“Shakespeare FAQs”). The moral of Macbeth is to never be power-hungry or else the power will overcome oneself. Shakespeare uses betrayal, trust issues, loyalty, and death to add to the dramatic setting of Macbeth to allow the readers to become more intune with the play. Shakespeare also incorporates several themes throughout all of his plays to contribute to the mood and tone of his works. In Macbeth, Shakespeare mainly displays the theme of supernatural by using similes, metaphors, imagery, and personification to accomplish his task of contributing to the overall mood and tone. Supernatural is an event or object unable to be
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The witches speak in the literary devices previously mentioned to add to the mood and affect the feeling of the reader, such as in the following lines: "Fillet of a fenny snake, In the cauldron boil and bake; Eye of newt and toe of frog, Wool of bat and tongue of dog, Adder's fork and blind-worm's sting, Lizard's leg and owlet's wing, For a charm of powerful trouble, Like a hell-broth boil and bubble." Using these literary devices in this manner makes the reader feel disgusted and interested because one's curiosity makes one eager to continue reading. The apparitions also add to the supernatural occurrences in Macbeth by telling his prophecy as stated in the following lines "Be lion-mettled, proud; and take no care, Who chafes, who frets, or where conspirers are: Macbeth shall never vanquish'd be until Great Birnam wood to high Dunsinane hill Shall come against him." His prophecy tells him that he will never be vanquished until the forest betrays him, but Macbeth is feeling very immortal at the time so he doesn't take the news seriously, and this decision leads to his
The witches speak in the literary devices previously mentioned to add to the mood and affect the feeling of the reader, such as in the following lines: "Fillet of a fenny snake, In the cauldron boil and bake; Eye of newt and toe of frog, Wool of bat and tongue of dog, Adder's fork and blind-worm's sting, Lizard's leg and owlet's wing, For a charm of powerful trouble, Like a hell-broth boil and bubble." Using these literary devices in this manner makes the reader feel disgusted and interested because one's curiosity makes one eager to continue reading. The apparitions also add to the supernatural occurrences in Macbeth by telling his prophecy as stated in the following lines "Be lion-mettled, proud; and take no care, Who chafes, who frets, or where conspirers are: Macbeth shall never vanquish'd be until Great Birnam wood to high Dunsinane hill Shall come against him." His prophecy tells him that he will never be vanquished until the forest betrays him, but Macbeth is feeling very immortal at the time so he doesn't take the news seriously, and this decision leads to his