Macbeth essay 2

Shakespeare creates tension through dramatic irony in many cases throughout the play and in many forms. For example, at the beginning Shakespeare made a witch torture a bride because she didn’t give the witch a few chestnuts.The witches reaction was cruel. The witch gave the groom and his crew the inability to sleep again as a consequence,(which was uncalled for as stated before) it was also disproportionate .  This is an example of dramatic irony because after this incident had happened, Macbeth still has the audacity to trust these immature and maleficent witches.

Also in one act Macbeth is told his fate by the witches (that he would be king by the quickest way). And if he hadn’t been informed of this then the story line would be extremely different. For example, Macbeth would have been less likely to kill Duncan because he wouldn’t have known his fate.This is how Shakespeare plays with the idea of fate in Macbeth. He makes the witches motivate Macbeth by telling him. The best example of dramatic irony is in Act 1, Scene 4 when Duncan says he trusts Macbeth , and the audience knows that Macbeth is expecting to become king (causing him to be untrustworthy) but the other characters don’t.

(Dramatic irony gives characters information without revealing everything)

At the end of the play Macbeth was killed. Macduff was the murderer. Macduff was the only person who was informed of Macbeth’s homicidal, traumatic behaviour and so was the perfect man to kill him.This causes tension because Macbeth was the main character of the story and the main character never usually dies. This is also a form of dramatic irony because the audience knew that eventually Macbeth would die but the characters did not.Also, later in the play Macbeth bus told that he ‘no man of woman born shall harm you’. This is true because at the end of the play Macbeth is being murdered by Macduff and he was not of woman born, he was torn from his mothers womb.

In this scene the we find Hecate(the God of magic)is going to use her power to ruin the overly confident Macbeth. The goddess of Magic is infuriated with the three witches because they went behind her back and spoke to Macbeth informing him of his fate. Her plans were to meet Macbeth alongside the three witches behind the pit of Acheron to tell him his destiny. ‘Get you gone. And at the pit of Acheron. Meet me i’th’morning. Thither he will come to know his destiny’ quoted Hecate to the first witch. Meaning that she would have met him at her chose destination and possibly killed him or informed him of his fate (which is pretty self explanatory).

Duncans death was surprising for everyone. One morning Macduff found Duncans body along side the guards. He alerted everyone and everybody was shocked. After a while Macbeth felt the guilt kicking in and decided to own up. ”O, yet I do repent me of my fury that I did kill them” meaning Macbeth killed Duncan and the guards that saw. Later on in the scene Donaldbain and Malcolm feel the fear. “There’s daggers in men’s smiles” quotes Donaldbain. “To Ireland I. Our separated fortune shall keep us safer”. This means that they will be safer in Ireland so Donaldbain and Malcolm are running away from the crime scene because the people who killed there father might want to kill them as well.