Macbeth (original title: The Tragedy of Macbeth) is a tragedy written in five acts by famed English poet, playwright, and actor William Shakespeare. The play tells the story of a megalomaniac army general named Macbeth, who manages to rise to power and become the tyrannical King of Scotland but ultimately fails and loses everything because of his selfishness, greed, and blind ambition. Thus, the play carries a powerful message.
Macbeth has a poetic form, as most of the play is written in blank verse or unrhymed iambic pentameter. This means that each line has five iambs and doesn’t follow a particular rhyme scheme. An iamb is a metrical foot which consists of an unaccented syllable followed by an accented one.
The witches who foresee Macbeth’s fate are the only characters who speak in trochaic tetrameter. This means that instead of iambs, we have trochees; a trochee is a metrical foot which consists of an accented syllable followed by an unaccented one, and trochaic tetrameter means that each line consists of four trochees.
Finally, there are some parts in Macbeth which are written in prose; this is usually the case with the common folk, as Shakespeare deliberately uses prose to write their lines, in order to separate them from the nobles.
Saturday, July 14, 2018
Critically examine the form of Macbeth.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
What is the theme of the chapter Lead?
Primo Levi's complex probing of the Holocaust, including his survival of Auschwitz and pre- and post-war life, is organized around indiv...
-
The statement "Development policy needs to be about poor people, not just poor countries," carries a lot of baggage. Let's dis...
-
"Mistaken Identity" is an amusing anecdote recounted by the famous author Mark Twain about an experience he once had while traveli...
-
Primo Levi's complex probing of the Holocaust, including his survival of Auschwitz and pre- and post-war life, is organized around indiv...
-
De Gouges's Declaration of the Rights of Woman was enormously influential. We can see its influences on early English feminist Mary Woll...
-
As if Hamlet were not obsessed enough with death, his uncovering of the skull of Yorick, the court jester from his youth, really sets him of...
-
In both "Volar" and "A Wall of Fire Rising," the characters are impacted by their environments, and this is indeed refle...
No comments:
Post a Comment