How does the supernatural play a role in Macbeth

How does the supernatural play a role in Macbeth

1. Act 1, scene 5

   • 'unsex me here and fill me from the crown to the top of direst cruelty'
     • Metaphor
       • Asking the evil spirits to unsex her to make her more powerful by changing her into a man.

2. Act 2, scene 1

   • 'a dagger of the mind'
     • metaphor
       • Macbeth knows he's about to kill King Duncan and he's currently imagining what it's like to carry the dagger and carry out the act but is very horrified for what he sees.

3. Act 3, scene 5

   • 'Thou shalt be king hereafter'
     • Macbeth at first didnt believe the witches wishes, however shortly after he sees the prophecies coming true which gets him ambitious.
     • shalt = will definate

4. Act 5, scene 1

   • 'she has light by her continually'
     • symobolism
       • light symbolises heave, so Lady macbeth feels like she has a part of heaven with her.
       • guilt
     • while lady Macbeth is sleep walking she starts to confess as her guilt over takes her. She fears she's going to hell

5. Act 3, scene 4

   • 'Now i am cabinned, cribbed, confined bound to saucy doubts and fears
     • Alliteration
       • He feels trapped with anxiety and guilt for fleance being alive
       • has unpleasant doubts
       • He see's ghost of Banquo visiting him at his banquet making Macbeth look like he's insane