Darkness
Pg 160, Third Witch - "Slivered in the moon's eclipse,"
Pg 162, Macbeth - "How now, you secret, black, and midnight hags!
Pg 166, Witches - "Come like shadows, so depart."
Scene 1 is where we get our dark imagry. It is clear that scene 1 is meant to be very dark. It's storming, the witches are dancing around a caldron making enchantments. Thats where "slivered in the mood's eclipse" comes in, darkness is part of their enchantment. "How now, you secret, black, and midnight hags! This is how Macbeth calls out to the witches. We know that the witches are dark, in an evil enchantment sort of way. Also they are out at night making their spells. Macbeth wants answers so he demands that the witches give him answers. So the witches show him demons, that they've conjured, to give him his answers. "Come like shadows, so depart." The witches are telling Macbeth to go, they've given him answers and their retreating back to their work. Overall this scene is meant to be very dark, stormy, their are demons. Overall it's meant to be a dark satanic scene.
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I think you did a really good job of explaining the quotes you chose here! I think picking darkness for this scene was a good idea, and I don't think I would have thought about all of the dark imagery if I had not read your blog. I like that you focused on the darkness image for your whole blog and it all fit together so well. Good job!
Act 4 while it is supposed to be a stormy mixture of filth, I also believe it is supposed to show the changing opinions of people. Those who used to think that Macbeth was amazing are now planning a mutiny.
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