Sometimes, there’s more to Lit than meets the eye.
Macbeth is full of imagery of light and darkness. From the first, the cover of night is invoked whenever anything terrible is going to happen. Lady Macbeth, for example, asks "thick night" to come...
After King Duncan is murdered by Macbeth, we learn from the Old Man and Ross that some strange and "unnatural" things have been going on. Even though it's the middle of the day, the "dark night str...
When Macbeth visits the weird sisters and demands to know whether or not Banquo's heirs will become kings, the witches conjure a vision of eight kings, the last of which holds a mirror that reflect...
The drunken Porter responds to the knocking at the castle's gates just after Macbeth has murdered King Duncan. As he does so, he imagines there's a Catholic "equivocator" at the door "who committed...
Blood shows up a lot in this play. Blood as a result of actual wounds is almost omnipresent, from the bleeding Captain in the beginning to Macbeth's bleeding head at the end. But it's the imagined...
You may have noticed the play is full of dead babies and slain children. The witches throw into their cauldron a "finger of birth-strangled babe" and then conjure an apparition of a bloody child th...
Clothing shows up an awful lot in the play – it seems like there's always talk about robes and nightgowns and what not. Was there a sale at Old Navy or is something else going on here? Let's...
