Macbeth is heavy in imagery. Here are the main categories of images used:
- blood
- gender (men v. women)
- natural vs. unnatural vs. supernatural
- appearance vs. reality
- animals
- light vs. dark
- riddles (equivocations)
- heaven/hell
- sickness/disease
- clothing
He uses many equivocations: intentionally vague language ("Foul is fair; fair is foul")
Wordplay: metaphors, similes, metonymy, personification, puns, allusions, synecdoche ("there the grown serpent lies, the worm that's fled...")
Character foils: Macbeth vs. Banquo, Macduff, Duncan; the Macbeths vs. the Macduffs; doppelganger (Banquo)
Irony: dramatic and verbal (sarcasm, overstatement, understatement)
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