Monday, March 23, 2015

I need help identifying quotes about contradictions in Macbeth. Can anyone help out?I have to find quotes in Macbeth about contradictions and...

In Act I, Scene 1, the witches chant “Fair is foul and
foul is fair.” The shows that what was once fair will become destructive. The
thunderstorm underscores this transition. A once peaceful sky has become turbulent.
Macbeth, a once loyal subject, will turn on Duncan.


In Act
II, Scene 4, the old man mentions many different events which illustrate that things are
out of place. This is the pathetic fallacy. The pathetic fallacy is when nature reflects
or empathizes with human destruction, suffering or love. In this case, the old man notes
that a falcon was killed by a mousing owl hawk. Ross mentions that the tame horses have
gone wild. And in the opening scene of the play, the thunderstorm reflects the witches’
words and foreshadows evil events to come. The old man ends this scene
with:



God’s
benison go with you, and with those;


That would make good
of bad, and friends of
foes.



The old man offers
God’s blessing to Ross and to those who are behaving in ways that are contrary to their
nature. Simply put, Macbeth was loyal and good; now he’s bad. If things are generally
going haywire, then anything behaving contrarily, making good of bad or vice-versa, is
suspicious.

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