FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
MACBETH
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hearing and touch
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taste and sight
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sight and smell
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sight and touch
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Detailed explanation-1: -Shakespeare uses imagery in Macbeth to examine moral issues, such as guilt and retribution, and to highlight the play’s concern with the conflict between appearance and reality. The clothing imagery in the play highlights the conflict between appearance and reality: Macbeth’s clothes are described as ill-fitting.
Detailed explanation-2: -At times the opposites are in terms of single words, such as ‘heaven’ or ‘hell’. The technical term for this is antithesis, when words are deliberately chosen to contrast. For instance, we have ‘foul’ and ‘fair’ from the witches and even Lady Macbeth says what has ‘quenched’ the servants has given her ‘fire’.
Detailed explanation-3: -Iambic pentameter is used almost all the time in Macbeth. If you count the syllables in Macbeth’s first lines, you can see how it works: ‘So foul and fair a day I have not seen’ (Macbeth, 1:3).
Detailed explanation-4: -How does Lady Macbeth respond to Macbeth when he sees Banquo’s ghost? She again questions his manhood, shaming him to try to bring him back to his senses.