How shakespeare presents setting Flashcards
Para 1: Setting of the heath (witches = chaos and destruction of natural order)
‘In thunder, lightning, or in rain.’
Para 1: Setting of the heath (witches = chaos and destruction of natural order)
‘Upon this blasted heath you stop our way/ With such prophetic greeting.’
Para 2: Setting of night a motif throughout the play (Macbeth trying to ignore his guilt, lack of divine presence, darkness and suspicion)
‘Stars, hide you fires.’
‘Black and deep desires.’
Para 2: Setting of night a motif throughout the play (Macbeth trying to ignore his guilt, lack of divine presence, darkness and suspicion)
‘There’s husbandry in heaven, Their candles are all out.’
Para 3: Setting of Scotland mirrors the terrible destruction Macbeth wreaks upon his subjects
‘Some say the Earth/ was feverous and did shake.’
Para 3: Setting of Scotland mirrors the terrible destruction Macbeth wreaks upon his subjects
‘O nation miserable/ with an untitled tyrant bloody-sceptered.’