Month: March 2016

In the play Macbeth the witches give Macbeth a lot of prophecies that have created a lot of tension throughout the play. “No man of woman born shall harm Macbeth” The language of the quotation is ambiguous as it has two separate meanings. The first meaning is what is in the quotation and the second meaning is that no man that was given birth by a woman can harm Macbeth but Macduff is an exception. He was ripped out of his mother’s womb so that means that he is able to harm Macbeth. The ambiguous language confuses Macbeth as at that time Macbeth does not know that you could be born by being ripped out of your mother’s womb.

Shakespeare creates tension through Dramatic Irony. This is because at the beginning of the play he shows us how the witches are very malevolent as they cursed an innocent woman just beacuse she did not want to give her any of her peanuts. The Witch curses the woman’s husband whom was a sailor, but also curses the rest of the people in the boat. The curse was that the husabnd and the rest of the people in the boat would never go to sleep and would always feel extreamaly hungry. This shows that we can not trust the witches where as Macbeth does not know this at the begginig of the play; he is either extremaly greedy or very naive. This creates dramtic irony as the audience knows that we can not trust the witches where as Macbeth does not this creates tension throughout the play

• Shakespeare creates tension by not letting all the characters know everything that’s going on.
• The Three Witches play with Macbeth’s fate as they were not meant to tell him. This is why in the scene where Hectate appears
  

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