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Good morning, The roar of thunder, lightning strikes the ground and witches in ugly-looking figure appears, opened the play. Continued by murders, horror and violent, images of death and blood enveloped by darkness. And ended by battles and the death of the protagonist, himself. The tragedy play, Macbeth is centered on a man driven by vaulting ambition, guided by the supernatural and pressured by his wife to a course that leads to his downfall. In this play, Shakespeare is presenting the ideas of disorder and corruption, good verse evil and deception and reality through dramatic and language techniques, which I shall discuss today. Fellow classmates, put yourself in an unfamiliar world. The first thing you noticed is a gloomy night, deserted. Then thunder and lightning breaks the silence of the night and in distant are three figures in circle, whispering. Somewhere out there are cries of wounded soldiers. What is your impression of this world? Shakespeare has used symbolism and imageries extensively throughout the play to portray the idea of disorder and corruption. The use of symbolisms such as thunder and lightning in Act1 scene 1 to represents natural disturbance. Accompany by witches, which are symbolic for evil. It is linking to the idea that something so evil about to be born that will cause disorder. Also Shakespeare used unnatural occurrences like the sun not shining, an owl kills a falcon and the horses turn wild and “eat each other” after the murder of Duncan to support the idea of disorder within nature. The use of imageries of war between Scotland with her traitor and the Norwegian.
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