p3 Flashcards
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topic sentence
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Additionally, the issue of guilt is explored in Macbeth as the intense feelings of remorse has caused his mental state to deteriorate to the extent that he no longer cares about life.
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point
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After learning his wife has died he is filled with misery and despair.
3
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evidence
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This is made evidently clear when he says, “Life’s but a walking shadow.”
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analysis
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Shakespeare uses personification here to compare life to a person “walking”, or travelling through their life. Furthermore by comparing “life” to a “shadow” which is something with no real substance, Macbeth suggests he views his existence as being pointless now.
