Metaphors In Macbeth

Macbeth Essay

In William Shakespeare’s Macbeth, passage 2.2.13-93 is significant because of the use of metaphors, irony, and theme topic, guilt. Specifically, the passage is significant because if the use of metaphors that create images of purity ruined by disorder. Furthermore, because of the use of irony that foreshadows the tragic future of the Macbeth’s. Finally, it is significant because it reveals how guilt can drive one into madness.

The passage is significant because of the use of metaphors that create images of purity ruined by disorder. Macbeth compares sleep to a ravell’d sleeve (2.2.49), death (2.2.50), and the murder of Cawdor (2.2.55). These metaphors create a negative image, while it is compared to innocent sleep. Shakespeare compares sleep to an undone sleeve to indicate, sleep can restore a

After the murder of Duncan, Lady Macbeth tries to calm down Macbeth “a foolish thought, to say a sorry sight” (2.2.30), “consider it not so deeply” (2.2.41), “you do unbend your noble strength, to think so brainsickly of things” (2.2.59-60). In 2.2, Lady Macbeth’s mind us bold and collect, but further on she becomes insane in the thought of murder, which is ironic because she told Macbeth not to think about the murder in result that it will make him brainsick (2.2.60) but then she goes insane. Later in the play, Lady Macbeth becomes obsessed in the “spot” and rubs her hand repeating “out, damn spot! “(5.1.35), she becomes mentally disordered after she handled the daggers (2.2.69). Lady Macbeth character starts as a bold woman but slowly becomes weak due to irony. These ironic lines combined make 2. 2.13-93 a significant passage, as well as the use of irony that foreshadows the tragic future of the Macbeth’s. Passage 2.2 is significant not only because of metaphors and irony, but also the theme topic,