A Bloody Night :: essays research papers

William Shakespe ar once said, For I have sworn thee fair, and design thee bright, who art as black as hell, as dark as night. Deception draws a big part in the play Macbeth. The play is about a king who is murdered by unrivalled of his close to trusted men trying to gain power. During the play Shakespeare heigh xs the mood by using various accounts of imagery. The blood and night imagery that Shakespeare uses adds to the barbarous, shabbiness and falsehood surrounding the play.Night has a role of great importance during the play. bird Macbeth beckons, Come, thick night, And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell, That my keen knife regain not the wound it makes, Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark, To predict "Hold, hold" Without the obscurity of night, she would not have urged Macbeth to kill the king as she did. The night, however, gives her the impression that Macbeth can indeed kill King Duncan with no one uncovering his contemptible crime, the sam e idea that Macbeth had when he said, "Stars, hide your fires allow not light see my black and deep desires" It seems as if the all in all plot revolves around the night and the many roles it holds throughout the play.      Shakespeare often uses darkness and storms to depict that evil happenings are occurring or are about to condense place. There are at least three examples of this in Macbeth. near of the evil things that Macbeth does in the story occurs in the night cartridge clip. Lennox states, "... the obscure bird Clamored the live-forever night. Some say, the earth Was feverous and did shake," in reaction to Macbeths first evil act, killing the king of Scotland. "The night has been unruly where we lay, Our chimneys were blown down and, as they say, Lamentings heard i the air strange screams of death,..." "Three score and ten I can remember well Within the volume of which time I have seen Hours of dreadful and things strange , but this sore night Hath trifled causation knowings." Both these quotes are talking about the night of Duncans death. They are showing the comparisons between the natural unruliness and the unusual disaster. In the play, the denomination blood is mentioned numerous times. Shakespeares use of this particular word is substantial he uses it to develop the character of Macbeth and the unfolding events of the drama.