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Macbeth
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William Shakespeare
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Macbeth Symbolism, Imagery & Allegory
Sometimes, there’s more to Lit than meets the eye.
Light and Darkness
Pretty standard stuff here. Darkness indicates something bad is about to happen; light is associated with life and God. Here's a look at some specifics:From the first, the cover of night is invoked...
Nature
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...
Eight Kings
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 "Equivocator"
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
Get out the hydrogen peroxide, because this play needs it: there's blood all over. From the bleeding Captain in the beginning to Macbeth's bleeding head at the end, literal blood drips from every p...
Dead Children
This play, unfortunately, is full of dead babies and slain children. And it's hard to make jokes about that, even if they are fictional and several hundred years old. The witches throw into their c...
Clothing
The way these characters keep talking about clothes, you'd think there was a 30% off sale at Old Navy. But clothes aren't just keeping the nobles warm in their drafty candles; they're also function...
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