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How would I write about this thesis: Shakespeare uses the nature imagery in Macbeth to portray the Elizabethan order of the universe, and the global awareness of Macbeth’s actions.
(details please...i don't care about length...details please)

2006-12-17 05:22:20 · 4 answers · asked by h_oboe 2 in Arts & Humanities Books & Authors

4 answers

Shakespeare didn't.
Thesis later tried to tie the two together.
Shakespeare just wrote plays that would bring in the people and make money for him and his troop's.
If you look hard enough The rune-stone is a declaration of war against the King of England.

2006-12-17 05:43:51 · answer #1 · answered by desk49 3 · 0 0

The scene with the 3 witches units up a few fundamental subject matters that reoccur for the period of the play. First, surely, is the proposal of the supernatural, which comes up once more with the witches later and with the ghosts. Basically, this units the scene for extra "otherworldly", spooky stuff to come back, giving the play an total darkish, creepy feeling. This scene additionally introduces matters which can be "unnatural". The witches are most likely unnatural and foreshadow Macbeth's "unnatural" disloyalty to his King. This subject is obvious such a lot strongly within the phrases and movements of Lady Macbeth who, just like the witches, inspire Macbeth's movements and is viewed to be an excessively unnatural lady. The scene additionally introduces the prophecies. Without those prophecies could Macbeth have performed what he did? The witches are there to place those nasty strategies in his head (and the heads of the viewers). Finally, Shakespeare could have made up our minds to comprise witches in view that he wrote the play for James who most likely had a factor approximately witches (I suppose he had whatever like three hundred "witches" placed to dying after he grew to be King, however I'm no longer definite). So perhaps Shakespeare integrated them to curiosity the King and placed them first in view that James had a notoriously quick awareness span. All of that is effectively my possess opinion, and should not be taken for something else. Hope it is helping.

2016-09-03 16:39:20 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0 0

Okay so if your studying Macbeth,you will be familiar with the term
Pathetic Fallacy- this means that nature reflects the actions of humans.
eg. Storms, rain, mist- When Macbeth falls into the clutches of the dark forces (the Three Witches) this is mirrored by a stormy night.
This is an important element of the play, as there are many instances where the weather, animals and even the people are directly influenced by the actions of Lady Macbeth and Macbeth himself.

2006-12-17 05:39:47 · answer #3 · answered by Rio 1 · 0 0

here's a sample from the first link below:
"Perhaps the most distinguishing characteristic of Shakespearean tragedies is the use of various types of imagery to emphasize the theme of the story. In Macbeth, William Shakespeare uses nature imagery, water, blood, light versus dark, good versus evil, night versus day, clothing imagery, and animal imagery. Imagery is figurative language or mental pictures that enable the author to show the significance of specific actions. Shakespeare uses nature imagery and the presence of blood as mediums for explaining the parallels between characters, their actions, and the nature of sin."

Here's a sample from the 2nd link

Imagery Of Nature

A few examples should be sufficient to show the way to the student in studying the predominant imagery in the play - the Imagery of Nature. This is linked with many other types of imagery in the play, e.g. light and darkness imagery, sleep imagery. Like all the other imagery it is a live part of the play.

Plant Imagery

A feature of Nature imagery is the regular use of the plant image. In Act I,Sc.iii, Banquo asks the Witches to "look into the seeds of time, And say which grain will grow and which will not." In the following scene, Duncan tells Macbeth, "I have begun to plant thee, and will labour To make thee full of growing."

And a sample from the 3rd - but there's not much there:
"Pathetic fallacy is a tool of imagery that is used in Macbeth to convey nature's response to the unnatural events that occur. Most of the scenes in which some kind of ill-doing is taking place is set at night or in darkness of some kind. Macbeth's murder of Duncan happens at night, and it triggers a response of outrage and grief in the land. Nature's troubled actions show us this; as Lennox tells Macbeth just before Duncan is found dead,

"The night has been unruly; where we lay, or chimneys were blown down ... lamentings head i' the air ... some say the ear was feverous and did shake." (II (iii) L59)

For the "Elizabethian order of the universe", well, that would be the theory of "The Great Chain of Being."
Try link 4 for that. Here's a sample:
"William Shakespeare's "Macbeth" is an ominous tale that illustrates the danger in violating the Great Chain of Being, the hierarchy of things in God's ordered universe. The Chain ranked all of creation and human society as well. It ranked kings above nobles and nobles above the poor. When Macbeth murdered King Duncan and assumed the throne, the Chain was violated... chaos resulted. The atmosphere of the play symbolized this resulting turmoil. Specifically, light and shadow were used to exemplify the unnatural chaos and ominous tone of the work. This essay will explore the role of light and the role of darkness as it relates to the chaos resulting from the violation of the Great Chain of Being."

Link 5 is a treasure trove of links to essays on Macbeth, including ones on nature imagery.

2006-12-17 05:32:31 · answer #4 · answered by johnslat 7 · 2 1

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