How shakespeare presents setting Flashcards

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Para 1: Setting of the heath (witches = chaos and destruction of natural order)

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‘In thunder, lightning, or in rain.’

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Para 1: Setting of the heath (witches = chaos and destruction of natural order)

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‘Upon this blasted heath you stop our way/ With such prophetic greeting.’

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Para 2: Setting of night a motif throughout the play (Macbeth trying to ignore his guilt, lack of divine presence, darkness and suspicion)

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‘Stars, hide you fires.’
‘Black and deep desires.’

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Para 2: Setting of night a motif throughout the play (Macbeth trying to ignore his guilt, lack of divine presence, darkness and suspicion)

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‘There’s husbandry in heaven, Their candles are all out.’

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Para 3: Setting of Scotland mirrors the terrible destruction Macbeth wreaks upon his subjects

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‘Some say the Earth/ was feverous and did shake.’

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Para 3: Setting of Scotland mirrors the terrible destruction Macbeth wreaks upon his subjects

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‘O nation miserable/ with an untitled tyrant bloody-sceptered.’

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