Essay
Imagery is used to describe a situation in such a way that a reader can get a sense of what is happening. It can be conveyed in a form of a picture, smell or even sound. Imagery is used in Macbeth to help the reader visualize it as if they were in the scene themselves. Imagery is also used to drive the play due to its significance in the book. One of the major example of imagery used it light and day. It does not only give us the image of the time, but also a reason to believe that something will happen. For example, dark is often used to describe evil, destruction, sins or loss. Light or day is used for heavens, god and the complete opposite of evil, good.
Light and dark is used to foreshadow what is happening in the act. Darkness is a tool that is used to cover one’s self of the crimes that they are committing. Since they can’t see themselves committing the crime, they won’t be as guilty of the actions that they did. First off all, at the beginning of the book, we see the three witches deciding on what location they should meet next. “When shall we thee meet again. In thunder, lightning, or in rain.” (I.i.1-2). As we can see, the witches only want a location where is it dark, symbolizing evil, so they can do their mischief and be ready for destruction. Lady Macbeth also plans the murder of Duncan in night. “Come, thick night, and pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell, that my keen knife see not the wound it makes, Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark to cry “Hold, hold!” (I.v.53-55). Over here, we see that Lady Macbeth wants to kill Duncan in the darkness of the night so she doesn’t have to see the wounds and the cuts she makes into Duncan’s skin. She want’s there to be the darkest smoke so that not even the heaven can look at the actions that she is doing. When Lady Macbeth went insane, she wanted to keep a light with her at all times. “Why, it stood by her. She has light by her continually. 'Tis her command.” (V.i.20-21). Over here, the Gentlewoman asks the doctor why Lady Macbeth has a light with her at all times. The reason for this is that after feeling remorse for what she has done, she can’t handle the dark anymore because she knows that she did something that she shouldn’t have done. As mentioned before, after all the sins she had committed in the dark, she needs some light to feel less guilty. This also relates to when Banquo is being murdered, one of the murderers turns off the light. …show more content…
“Who did strike out the light?” (III.iii.27-28). This shows us that murder is being done in the darkness where people can’t see the actions that they are doing and think that they can hide in the night.
Another part of imagery is Insanity. Insanity shows us that the character still has a “little bit of human” in them. Even after committing all these sins, the character has guilt of their actions. The two characters that go insane because of their guilt are Macbeth and Lady Macbeth. Madness is also used to represent the idea of self-destruction and ultimately leads to the downfall of Macbeth. Macbeth can’t sleep at night because he is culpable of the death of the king and disturbing the natural order of who gets to be the king. “Still it cried, “Sleep no more!” to all the house. “Glamis hath murdered sleep, and therefore Cawdor Shall sleep no more. Macbeth shall sleep no more.” (II.iii.54-57). We can see that Macbeth is guilty about the murder of Duncan. He can’t sleep because the voices in his head keep saying that he has murdered sleep, and now he won’t be able to sleep himself. He can’t stand to look at what he had done. “I’ll go no more: I am afraid to think what I have done; Look on ’t again I dare not.” (II.iii.LINE). He can’t go back to the same room to plant the weapons in because if he sees the body, it will be a reminder of what he just did. Before Macbeth is about to murder Duncan, he sees a dagger in the air. He tries to grab it but he can’t because it is just a hallucination
Imagery is used to describe a situation in such a way that a reader can get a sense of what is happening. It can be conveyed in a form of a picture, smell or even sound. Imagery is used in Macbeth to help the reader visualize it as if they were in the scene themselves. Imagery is also used to drive the play due to its significance in the book. One of the major example of imagery used it light and day. It does not only give us the image of the time, but also a reason to believe that something will happen. For example, dark is often used to describe evil, destruction, sins or loss. Light or day is used for heavens, god and the complete opposite of evil, good.
Light and dark is used to foreshadow what is happening in the act. Darkness is a tool that is used to cover one’s self of the crimes that they are committing. Since they can’t see themselves committing the crime, they won’t be as guilty of the actions that they did. First off all, at the beginning of the book, we see the three witches deciding on what location they should meet next. “When shall we thee meet again. In thunder, lightning, or in rain.” (I.i.1-2). As we can see, the witches only want a location where is it dark, symbolizing evil, so they can do their mischief and be ready for destruction. Lady Macbeth also plans the murder of Duncan in night. “Come, thick night, and pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell, that my keen knife see not the wound it makes, Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark to cry “Hold, hold!” (I.v.53-55). Over here, we see that Lady Macbeth wants to kill Duncan in the darkness of the night so she doesn’t have to see the wounds and the cuts she makes into Duncan’s skin. She want’s there to be the darkest smoke so that not even the heaven can look at the actions that she is doing. When Lady Macbeth went insane, she wanted to keep a light with her at all times. “Why, it stood by her. She has light by her continually. 'Tis her command.” (V.i.20-21). Over here, the Gentlewoman asks the doctor why Lady Macbeth has a light with her at all times. The reason for this is that after feeling remorse for what she has done, she can’t handle the dark anymore because she knows that she did something that she shouldn’t have done. As mentioned before, after all the sins she had committed in the dark, she needs some light to feel less guilty. This also relates to when Banquo is being murdered, one of the murderers turns off the light. …show more content…
“Who did strike out the light?” (III.iii.27-28). This shows us that murder is being done in the darkness where people can’t see the actions that they are doing and think that they can hide in the night.
Another part of imagery is Insanity. Insanity shows us that the character still has a “little bit of human” in them. Even after committing all these sins, the character has guilt of their actions. The two characters that go insane because of their guilt are Macbeth and Lady Macbeth. Madness is also used to represent the idea of self-destruction and ultimately leads to the downfall of Macbeth. Macbeth can’t sleep at night because he is culpable of the death of the king and disturbing the natural order of who gets to be the king. “Still it cried, “Sleep no more!” to all the house. “Glamis hath murdered sleep, and therefore Cawdor Shall sleep no more. Macbeth shall sleep no more.” (II.iii.54-57). We can see that Macbeth is guilty about the murder of Duncan. He can’t sleep because the voices in his head keep saying that he has murdered sleep, and now he won’t be able to sleep himself. He can’t stand to look at what he had done. “I’ll go no more: I am afraid to think what I have done; Look on ’t again I dare not.” (II.iii.LINE). He can’t go back to the same room to plant the weapons in because if he sees the body, it will be a reminder of what he just did. Before Macbeth is about to murder Duncan, he sees a dagger in the air. He tries to grab it but he can’t because it is just a hallucination