FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
MACBETH
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Question
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Verbal irony
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Dramatic Irony
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Pathetic fallacy
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Simile
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Detailed explanation-1: -’By clock, ‘tis day, and yet dark strangles the travelling lamp. ‘ Although it should be day, night still hangs over the sky.
Detailed explanation-2: -Shakespeare’s Macbeth is a play famous for its tragedy, conflict, and turmoil. Often, Shakespeare reflects the torment of his characters through pathetic fallacy, most commonly by referring to the weather around them.
Detailed explanation-3: -In a show of pathetic fallacy, it is established several times that it is deep in the night, as Banquo asks “How goes the night” to Fleance, and Fleance replies that “The moon is down". Banquo: “husbandry in the heaven", and that “their candles are all out". Sense of darkness shrouding over all that is light.
Detailed explanation-4: -Thunder and lightening are associated with evil and connote foreboding, disturbing events-Shakespeare often uses foul weather is often used as pathetic fallacy to show that the story is dark and unnatural. This is a dramatic opening and quite alarming, creating suspense.