Language Techniques Used In Macbeth

Macbeth recognizes that the dagger is not real and accepts this. This is his first step into insanity. As he admits, his mind is feverish with excitement and perhaps dread, and he understands that this vision is ominous. His internal conflict has now begun to develop; his ambition is driving him to do something and subconsciously he knows it is not right.

     The second type of literary device that Shakespeare uses in Macbeth is symbolism. The predominant symbol is blood and is used as an effective method to describe the theme of the play. Not only does blood symbolize bravery, it is also a means of showing treachery and treason and probably most importantly, guilt. One example of bravery occurs when the captain says, "For brave Macbeth—well he deserves that name--/Disdaining fortune, with his brandished steel,/Which smoked with bloody execution"(1.2.16-18). Soon after this blood changes into a representation of treachery and treason. Lady Macbeth asks the spirits to "Make thick my blood,/ Stop up th’ access and passage to remorse" (1.5. 43-44). She asks the spirits to take away compassion and make her remorseless for the actions she is about to take. Also, when Ross asks, "Is’t known who did this more than bloody deed?" (2.4.22), he tries to figure out who performed the disloyal act of murdering the king. Blood is also used many times to express the guilt-ridden consciences of the characters. For instance, Macbeth says, "What hands are here? Ha! They pluck out mine own eyes!/ Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash the blood/ Clean from my hand?" (2.3.58-60). Macbeth obviously feels guilty for killing Duncan in cold blood. Later in the play, Lady Macbeth

Subsequently, not only is there a sense of illness demonstrated through Macbeth’s hallucinations, but this dagger is the representation that Macbeth’s rationality has abandoned him. The dagger is represented as a simple illusion because Macbeth has gained understanding that the envisioning of the dagger may as well just be a result of all the exhaustion of his brain. However, in spite of that realization, the dagger has an enormous impact on him, thus making Macbeth feel greatly disturbed. When imagining the dagger, all he can think of is the throne he may be bound to inherit, but he knows there is no absolute rationality to the crime he is about to commit. It is apparent he refuses to think about the lasting effect on others he has lost all the human like qualities of compassion. This dagger scene allows readers to envision more than just a murder, on the contrary, it is noted that his brain is oppressed with literal overwhelming fear. His rational thought has been to overwhelmed it has just left him. It even goes as far as he not even wanting to think of his crime, opposingly instead of taking full responsibility and “know[ing] [his] deed”(2.2.74) he would much rather let the

During Macbeth’s dagger soliloquy, he is overcome with a false vision, as explained by the following quotes: “Is this a dagger which I see before me,” and “Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain”. The dagger is a hallucination, seen only by Macbeth, and demonstrates the difference in appearance to reality in the play, because Macbeth is seeing only a figment of his imagination due to his conscious.

Without literary techniques most literature would be colorless. Therefore these techniques are very crucial in producing successful writing. Not only do they create interest, they also help in development of characters, this is especially depicted in the Shakespearean play, Macbeth. The characters developed from the different literary techniques such as irony, paradox, and imagery assist in conveying the many themes throughout the play.

The Insanity of Macbeth is shown in these quotes. Shakespeare's description of Macbeth's thoughts visibly reveals the theme of madness.

trouble of killing Duncan to become king, thinking it would be the best thing in the

In Act two scene one Macbeth has an encounter with a ghost in the form of a dagger and he begins to hallucinate about killing King Duncan. Once the hallucination is over Macbeth accepts his and King Duncan’s fate. Shakespeare uses diction and imagery to convey Macbeth’s remorseful and fearful state of mind in Macbeth’s Soliloquy Act two scene one. Shakespeare uses harsh words such as “dagger” and “oppressed” to express Macbeth’s remorseful state of mind.

Diction and imagery play large roles in Macbeth. Shakespeare's use of these devices create a better image in the mind of the audience and set the stage for foreshadowing. In the scene before Duncan's murder in Macbeth, Shakespeare uses diction and imagery to establish Macbeth's guilty, anxious frame of mind. Shakespeare uses imagery as soon as the passage begins by writing, "Is this a dagger which I see before me, the handle toward my hand," (II.i.1-2).

This passage found in the play Macbeth by William Shakespeare conveys the idea of a person's internal conflicts with the supernatural world and themselves. Through the use of poetic elements such as personification and syntax, the theme of the passage is successfully conveyed. The personification found on line 159 says, “my seated heart knock at my ribs.” Although this quote may seem quite complex it simply means that his heart was heavily beating inside his chest. The use of syntax is just as prevalent throughout the passage and is best seen through this quote, “shakes so my single state of man”(I.iii.153). Moreover, this type of syntax is used as an example of sentence inversion which is when the author flips a sentence in normal sentence

Shakespeare uses syntax - such as sentence structure, repetition, and koans - to draw the attention of the audience to what is being said by the characters. In the beginning of the scene, Lady Macbeth acknowledges Macbeth as the thane of Glamis and Cawdor; however, in order to bring the audience’s attention to her words, the sentence structure does not conform to regular grammar. Confident that Macbeth “shalt be/What thou art promised” (I, v, 15-16), Lady Macbeth’s inversion of sentence structure shocks the audience so they pay specific attention attention to what the character is saying. Shakespeare also uses repetition to bring the attention of the audience to what a character is saying. Lady Macbeth opts to repeat the word do when speaking about how Macbeth must kill Duncan.

Context: The speaker is Macbeth and he is speaking to himself.These lines in the play are spoken before the actual murder of King Duncan. Before this moment, Macbeth had been in deep thought over whether or not he should actually kill Duncan. A short time before he had even asserted that he “will proceed no further in this business”(Shakespeare 1.vii- 32). But by this point in the play, Macbeth has “settled and bend up Each corporal agent to this terrible feat” and has accepted that Duncan must die (Shakespeare 1.vii-79-80). These are the last thoughts of Macbeth before he commits the murder of King Duncan.

Over the course of the tragedy of Macbeth, Shakespeare uses various literary devices to bring to attention the importance of his diction, as well as relate the speech to the common theme of death and life’s worthlessness. Beyond the figurative language mentioned above, there are elements that are significant on their own, specifically foreshadowing, metaphors, repetition and alliteration. Shakespeare hints at an important upcoming event using Macbeth’s boastful attitude when he describes the walls surrounding his main character. This element of foreshadowing allows for the reader to predict that something tragic and significant will soon take place. As the speech progresses, the author continues to emphasize Macbeth’s idea that life is brief

== = As soon as Macbeth is alone he imagines he sees daggers before him. In other words he is hallucinating Macbeth: “In this a dagger which I see before me,

The play ‘Macbeth’ uses soliloquies with great effect to express the thoughts of individual characters, particularly in the case of the protagonist, Macbeth. In Act V Scene V, strong words from Macbeth convey to the reader two themes of the play.  This soliloquy demonstrates the play's use of irony and the use of the disparity between the great opposition of light and darkness as symbols for both life and death.  This soliloquy is quite significant to the play as a whole since it demonstrates two very important themes as well as leading to a better understanding of Macbeth.