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|Ex. Figurative Language / line |Type of figurative language |Explanation/ paraphrase of |Analysis: What does the |
|#s | |figurative language |figurative language mean? |
|We have scorched the snake, not | |We have only stunned/wounded |Foreshadows future conflicts |
|killed it: She’ll close and be |Metaphor |those against us. They will |with other powerful people |
|herself, whilst our poor malice | |become stronger, and we will |(Malcolm? Macduff?); Shows |
|remains in danger of her former |Snake = enemies |again be in danger of what they |Macbeth’s paranoia and |
|tooth (sc. Ii, 13-15) | |could have done. |insecurity. |
|“Oh full of scorpions is my | |Macbeth’s fear of getting caught|Macbeth is going crazy. He is |
|mind, dear wife” |Metaphor |is poisoning his thoughts. |now mentally unstable. This |
|(sc. ii, 36) | | |connects to his earlier |
| | | |prediction that his own “bloody |
| | | |instructions” will “haunt him.” |
| | | | |
|Come, seeling night, scarf up | |Macbeth invokes darkness so no |Macbeth wants to get anyone who |
|the tender eye of pitiful day |Personification |one can see what he does. He |is in his way out of it. This |
|and with thy bloody and | |also wants to destroy the “bond”|foreshadows Banquo’s murder as |
|invisible hand cancel and tear | |(father/son; Banquo/Fleance) |well as Macbeth’s motives |
|to pieces that great bond which | |that makes him “pale” (scared). |against anyone else who gets in |
|makes me pale (sc. ii 46-50) | | |his way. |
|There the grown serpent lies; |Metaphor |Banquo is dead. Fleance is too |Macbeth still has enemies. The |
|the worm that’s fled hath nature| |young to be a danger, but he |witches’ prophecy for Banquo |
|that in time will venom breed, |Serpent = Banquo |will in time want revenge and |might still come true. |
|no teeth for the present (sc. iv|Worm = Fleance |will be a threat. | |
|30-33) | | | |
|Can such things be, and overcome|Simile |Macbeth wants the consequences |Macbeth realizes—although he |
|us like a summer’s cloud (sc. | |of his deeds to pass over like a|still asks this question—that |
|iv, 112-114) | |cloud. |his consequences will not go |
| | | |away. He will continue to be |
| | | |plagued. |
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