Add title Explore Shakespeare’s use of language devices and dramatic effect and how they reveal the action of ambition on the characters Macbeth or Lady Macbeth?
The action of ambition – ruins their lives, too much ambition, leads to sacrifice = humanity, morals, friendship, loyalty and honour.
They lost their minds = sanity, lack of sleep, anger and paranoia.
Symbolism – Blood = guilt. Dagger = Evil intentions. Stars = heave/god/fate/morals, light/dark. Golden round = crown being too big for Macbeth.
Dramatic irony – asides, who killed Duncan
INTRO
P1 – lost their minds
Deaths and losses are one of the main components of Shakespeare’s tragedy Macbeth. One of the main sufferers of all this destruction is Macbeth himself. After Macbeth has succeeded with his plan to kill Duncan, he states, “I had most need of blessings, and ‘Amen’ stuck in my throat”. This tells us that Macbeth’s guilt is obvious. He was asking for God’s blessing but he couldn’t say the word ‘Amen’. As Macbeth says these words, you can see that he knew that he was doing wrong, from the very moment that he killed the King. This was nearly the very beginning of Macbeth losing control of himself and his actions. Further on in the play, Macbeth commits other acts of treason including killing his best friends, merely out of paranoia and despair. – ADD LANGUAGE EFFECT IN
Macbeth’s mental state, before killing the king and receiving his future from the Three Witches, could be described as anxious and somewhat confused. Macbeth understands that he wants to be King but doesn’t want to murder the man that looked upon his bravery and ambition. Sadly, Lady Macbeth pressures her husband into killing Duncan and afterwards Macbeth is flooded with masses of guilt and anxiety. After, Macbeth struggles to hide his emotions and to hold the appearance of a strong-minded king. In order to secure his place as the king, Macbeth takes to the measures of killing Banquo and Fleance, as well as Macduff’s entire family. Macbeth begins to lose sleep and gradually, as his mental state declines, he becomes a bloodthirsty and unsympathetic ruler, who is overconfident in his abilities to retain the title of King of Scotland.
P2 – symbolism
P3 – dramatic irony
P4 – ambition leads to sacrifice
CONCLUSION