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Macbeth revision notes:

Act 1 scene 1:

Macbeth opens the scene in ACT 1 SCENE 1 with “thunder and lightning. Enter three WITCHES “the stormy weather adds to the mystery and dark mood of the opening scene. Shakespeare chooses to open the play with the witches this sets the scene for the rest of the play gives an important role in the play's events. Also, the witches are given names making them more intimidating (remember that none of the female characters have names lady Macbeth is known by her husbands' name.” In thunder, lightning, or rain” Macbeth \the fog and filthy air “which makes it a cycle giving a sinister feel also giving the witches authority.” The witches state that they should meet again when the battle is lost and won in which witches were viewed devilish and that they could foretell the future. Pathetic fallacy is used in the line “ere the set of sun” and “there to meet Macbeth “suggests that darkness or a bad spirit will take over Macbeth. Macbeth describes the scene as foggy also through pathetic fallacy that visibility is also low, not only around them but to the matter, suggesting that the play has layers to it.

Acts 1 scene 2:

Macbeth seems to be respected by all the characters in the play he is known to be a brave and noble throughout Scotland. The captain complements Macbeth several times throughout scene 2 for example “brave Macbeth…..-well he deserves that name” also describes Macbeth as a brave and skilled warrior “which smoked with bloody executions” also Duncan demands the cowdars death with five words “go pronounce his present death “gives us the idea of the world the play is set in as to be very masculine and violent also honor-bound in order to be known as a man it has to be proved worthy man during battle as he showed “till he unseamed him from the nave to the th’chuy t7 aps” .

Duncan says “what he hath lost , noble Macbeth hath won” Shakespeare uses this to foreshadow what Macbeth will letter do in the future as treason was committed again the king and Scotland by the thane of Cawdor in which Macbeth does the same later on into the play .