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.