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Macbeth and Darkness
Title: Macbeth and Darkness
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 813 | Pages: 3.5 (approximately 235 words/page)
Macbeth and Darkness
As Mabeth and Lady Macbeth pursued their evil plans Shakespeare used more and more imagery of darkness. Especially concerning the murder of Duncan. Dark imagery was used to describe the witches and also Macbeth. Dark imagery was used to describe the weather, and the country. Darkness played a very important role Macbeth.
When the king announced that Malcolm was to be crowned as heir to the throne he said “But sings of nobleness, like stars, …showed first 75 words of 813 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 813 total…be for Macbeth’s troubles. If they had not toyed with him, he would not have told Lady Macbeth their predictions, and she would not have persuaded him to go through with the murder. Macbeth refers to them as “…secret, black, and midnight hags!” (IV, I, 48).
Shakespeare has used darkness in this play to make a tragedy even more tragic by having its main characters truly experience what it is to be evil and despised.
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