OBJ: To know the itches second set of prophecies. To understand what is expected in the creative critical commentary coursework.
"Macbeth! Macbeth! Macbeth! beware Macduff; Beware the thane of Fife. Dismiss me. Enough."
Shakespeare establishes the power of the supernatural.
"Be bloody, bold, and resolute; laugh to scorn The power of man, for none of woman born Shall harm Macbeth."
The equivocation allows for the superstition linked to caesarian birth were thought to be blessed.
"What is this That rises like the issue of a king, And wears upon his baby-brow the round And top of sovereignty?"
Juxtaposes prelapsarian innocence with Macbeth's iniquity. The idea of a "barren sceptre" and "fruitless crown"
"Macbeth shall never vanquish'd be until Great Birnam wood to high Dunsinane hill Shall come against him."
The implausibility of this makes him feel entirely invincible.
"That will never be Who can impress the forest, bid the tree Unfix his earth-bound root?"
Macbeth acknowledges that there is a force greater than that of man (the force of nature which is a pagan idea.) The shallow absurdity of these prophecies is exposed later on.
"Macbeth! Macbeth! Macbeth! beware Macduff; Beware the thane of Fife. Dismiss me. Enough."
Shakespeare establishes the power of the supernatural.
"Be bloody, bold, and resolute; laugh to scorn The power of man, for none of woman born Shall harm Macbeth."
The equivocation allows for the superstition linked to caesarian birth were thought to be blessed.
"What is this That rises like the issue of a king, And wears upon his baby-brow the round And top of sovereignty?"
Juxtaposes prelapsarian innocence with Macbeth's iniquity. The idea of a "barren sceptre" and "fruitless crown"
"Macbeth shall never vanquish'd be until Great Birnam wood to high Dunsinane hill Shall come against him."
The implausibility of this makes him feel entirely invincible.
"That will never be Who can impress the forest, bid the tree Unfix his earth-bound root?"
Macbeth acknowledges that there is a force greater than that of man (the force of nature which is a pagan idea.) The shallow absurdity of these prophecies is exposed later on.
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