Macbeth - Theme Analysis
THEME ANALYSIS:
Fair is foul, and foul is fair is a paradox that recurs throughout the play, MACBETH by William Shakespeare. The quoted phrase, fair is foul and foul is fair is used frequently and the phrase itself is an oxymoron, that is, a rhetorical figure in which incongruous or c....
Macbeth Act One
Scene 1
In a dark cavern, a bubbling cauldron hisses and spits, and the three witches suddenly appear onstage. They circle the cauldron, chanting spells and adding bizarre ingredients to their steweye of newt and toe of frog, / Wool of bat and tongue of dog (IV.i.1415). Hecate materializes ....
Macduff as the Avenging Hero in Macbeth
A hero is a mythological or legendary figure of great strength or ability, or a man admired for his achievements and qualities. Macduff should be considered a hero in this play because he is a Scottish nobleman hostile to Macbeths kingship, is a loyal and caring man of action, and he helped....
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