Language in Macbeth

Language in Macbeth
  1.) An Iambic Pentameter is Iambic pentameter is a meter in poetry, consisting of an unrhymed line with five iambs or feet (hence pentameter), felt by many to be the most powerful of all metrical forms in English poetry. When read aloud such verse naturally follows a beat.

The effect Of having an iambic pentameter is it creates a dramatic effect on certain words, stressing them. My evidence to support this is; “Double, double, toil and trouble. Fire burn and cauldron bubble.” It may appear like a normal rhyming sentence, but if you think of it like this. “DOUble, DOUble, TOIL and TROUble. FIre BURN and CAULdron BUbble.” You can see how when spoken aloud you stress certain words or parts of words. The reason for this is to emphasises the rhyme and to make the sentence memorable.

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  a) MacBeth isn't talking about the actual blood on his hands he has to live with the gulit and he will always have the image of the blood on his hands, they are stained for life.
MacBeth isn't talking about the actual blood on his hands he has to live with the gulit and he will always have the image of the blood on his hands, they are stained for life.
"Will all get Neptune's ocean wash this blood clean from my hands?"

Blood symbolizes the guilt that there is a permanent stain on both Macbeth and Lady Macbeth and it finally brings them to their own graves.
Blood symbolizes the guilt that there is a permanent stain on both Macbeth and Lady Macbeth and it finally brings them to their own graves.
b.) "Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him?"

c.) "O, full of scorpions is my mind, dear wife! Thou know'st that Banquo and his Fleance lives."
Of course Macbeth doesn’t really mean his head Is full of scorpions. He means his head is full of so much guilt.
Of course Macbeth doesn’t really mean his head Is full of scorpions. He means his head is full of so much guilt.


d.) “After life’s fitful fever, he sleeps...