A Bloody Night :: essays research papers

William Shakespe ar at one time said, For I have sworn thee f cinch, and thought thee bright, who art as dark-skinned as hell, as dark as shadowtime. Deception plays a volumed part in the play Macbeth. The play is about a fagot who is murdered by one of his most trusted men assay to gain power. During the play Shakespeare heightens the mood by using various accounts of imagery. The ancestry and night imagery that Shakespeare uses adds to the evil, darkness and deception surrounding the play.Night has a role of great importance during the play. Lady Macbeth beckons, Come, thick night, And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell, That my keen knife inflict non the wound it makes, Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark, To cry "Hold, hold" Without the obscurity of night, she would not have urged Macbeth to kill the king as she did. The night, however, gives her the impression that Macbeth can thusly kill King Duncan with no one uncovering his contemptible cr ime, the like idea that Macbeth had when he said, "Stars, hide your fires Let not light see my black and deep desires" It seems as if the whole plot revolves around the night and the many roles it holds throughout the play.      Shakespeare often uses darkness and storms to depict that evil happenings are occurring or are about to take place. There are at least three examples of this in Macbeth. Most of the evil things that Macbeth does in the figment occurs in the nighttime. Lennox states, "... the obscure bird Clamored the livelong night. Some say, the earth Was hectic and did shake," in reaction to Macbeths first evil act, killing the king of Scotland. "The night has been unruly where we lay, Our chimneys were blown down and, as they say, Lamentings heard i the air strange screams of death,..." "Three score and ten I can concoct well Within the volume of which time I have seen Hours of appalling and things strange, but this sore night Hath trifled former knowings." Both these quotes are talk of the town about the night of Duncans death. They are showing the comparisons between the cancel unruliness and the unusual disaster. In the play, the word blood is mentioned numerous times. Shakespeares use of this particular word is significant he uses it to develop the case of Macbeth and the unfolding events of the drama.