McB Act 4 Scene 3

The image of darkness continues to be present in this act especially since there is a lot of talk about MacBeth's doing.On page 186, MacDuff says "This avarice sticks deeper: grows with more pernicious root" this is an example of planting imagery. He is saying that the greed is more deeply planted. This is Macduff talking to Malcolm about the throne. This is also the scene where MacDuff is informed of the murders of his wife and child. On page 194, Ross says "your castle is surprised; your wife and babes savagely slaughtered" this is an example of injury, and as we know they were murdered because of MacBeth. And on page 188, Malcolm says "wiped the black scruples" which is an example of darkness again. He is saying that he has wiped the black suspicions from his soul.

McB Act 4 Scenes 1-2

Throughout this act there is a lot of darkness, I think partially because Shakespeare is showing that MacBeth's transition into evil has taken a toll on everything and everyone. The first scene in this act is the witches and has mainly darkness imagery. On page 162, MacBeth says "How now, you secret, black , and midnight hags!" Here is of course speaking to the witches. But here there are two images of darkness, the black witches, referring to their black magic and midnight referring to dark night. The darkness here is meant to show the evilness of the witches. On page 182, MacBeth says "Bleed, Bleed poor country" here is talking about his country, Scotland and this is during his conversation with Malcolm, so he is saying that his country is being hurt by MacBeth, this is an example of injury.

McB Act 3 Scenes 4-6

Most of the imagery in this section of reading is in Scene 4. On page 134, MacBeth says in line 23, "Then comes my fit again:" He is talking about his mental illness here. He says this after the 1st murderer tells him that Fleance escaped when they killed Banquo. This is his reaction to the news. Then right after MacBeth the murderer says in line 29, "With twenty trenched gashes on his head" here he is describing what he and the other murderers did to the body of Banquo and this is an example of injury imagery. On page 136, Lady MacBeth says to the Lords in line 65, "The fit is momentary" she is talking about MacBeth's reaction to seeing Banquo's ghost. She is trying to convince them that it is just a short and not important fit. This is an example of mental illness imagery. On page 142, MacBeth has the start of a monologue at the end of the page, in which he says "to the weird three sisters" which is of course an example of strangeness and is referring to the three witches that have been mentioned throughout the play. Then he goes on to say in line 162, "I am in blood" which is an example of injury imagery. He is saying that he is standing deep in blood because he has been involved in so many murders, and he goes on to say that he cant go back now because he is just too far in. He is saying this to Lady MacBeth.

McB Act 3 Scenes 1-3

In this section of the play there is a pretty good mixture of the different kinds of imagery. On page 110, Banquo says "As the weird women promised" which is a common example throughout this play of strangeness. He is of course referring to the three witches. On page 112, MacBeth has some lines which have 3 kinds of imagery. "We hear our bloody cousins are bestowed" which is an example of injury, "with strange intervention" which is an example of strangeness and "Till you return at night" which is an example of darkness. When he is talking about his cousins, he is talking about the injuries they have recieved, and with the strange intervention it literally means just that. And of course we all associate night with darkness, which is third image in this monologue. On page 116, MacBeth says "to half a soul and to a notion crazed" which is an example of mental illness, and he is talking about madmen. Then on the same page, MacBeth says "Our point of second meeting" which is an example of double imagery. On page 118, the 1st murderer says "To mend it, or be rid on't" which is an example of sewing.

McB Act 2

In class I was assigned strangeness to put up on the board, so since I have it already marked in my book I decided to focus on the strangeness imagery in my blog for this act. The first image of strangeness is on page 72, when Banquo says "He hath been in unusual pleasure." In this section Banquo is talking about Duncan, and how he has been in such a good mood since the battle, which apparently is not normal for him. The second occurrence of this image is on page 74, and is once again Banquo who says "I dreamt last night of the three weird sisters." In this case he is of course talking about a dream he had about the three witches. Then on page 90, Lennox says "strange screams of death." In this case, he is actually talking about strange screams of death that are heard by the people during the storm. He is discussing the night that MacBeth killed Duncan. On page 100, there are two images of strangeness. The first is when the Old Man is talking, and he says "Hours dreadful and things strange" and the second is Ross who says "And Duncan's horses- a thing most strange and certain-." They are both discussing how unusual the night in which Duncan was killed has been. Shakespeare keeps describing the night and what has happened as strange. This helps the story and makes it all the more intriguing about what is to come.

McB Act 1 Scenes 4-7

This section of reading had a lot of all the kinds of imagery, so I tried to use examples of most of them. On page 46, Duncan says to MacBeth, "I have begun to plant thee, and will labor to make thee full of growing" (pg. 28.) This is an example of planting imagery. Duncan is saying that he will reward MacBeth for all that he has done and he has Duncan's goodwill. On page 58, Lady MacBeth says "All our service in every point twice done and then done double" (pg. 58.) This is an example of the doubles imagery. She is saying this while talking to Duncan and telling him how much she and MacBeth appreciate what Duncan has done for them and how even if they repeated the kindness and doubled it, it would not be enough. On page 54, Lady MacBeth says to her husband "Your face, my thane, is as a book where men may read strange matters" (pg. 54.) She is saying that people can easily read strange things on his face. This is an example of strangeness imagery. And then on page 48, MacBeth says "Let not light see my black and deep desires" (pg. 48.) He is hoping that his "dark," (meaning bad) desires and plans will not be exposed. This is an example of darkness imagery.

McB Act 1 Scenes 1-3

In the first section of reading there are a lot of images of injury, beacuse or the battle, so I decided to talk about those. On page 26, Duncan speaks of a bloody man and the sergeant while speaking of the battle, talks about Macbeth's brandished steel "which smoked with bloody execution" (pg. 26.) These are both images of injury in the novel. They are giving the reader a visual of what the scene would be like and especially when the sergeant is talking about MacBeth, the way he describes it shows that MacBeth killed many people in the battle, and he was respected. On page 28, the sergeant says "But I am faint, my gashes cry for help" (pg. 28.) This is once again describing the battle and how he was wounded and it has made him weak, and now he needs someone to see to his injuries. We learn from all of this imagery that this was a big and important battle. Also on page 28, Duncan says to the sergeant, "So well they words become thee, as they wounds;" (pg. 28) this is another image of injury and Duncan is saying that the news the sergeant brought and the wounds he has suffered give him credit.