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The Lord’s anointed temple

Technique: metaphor and religious imagery

Context: the king was believed to be chosen by God divine right regicide was the greatest sin against natural and divine law

Intention: Shakespeare is Duncan‘s murderer sacrilegious not just political

Effect: the audience see Macbeth’s act as blasphemy that will bring chaos to Scotland

Oh horror, horror horror

Technique: repetition and exclamation

Context: Duncan’s death is on unspeakable even language fails

Intention: Shakespeare dramatises the enormity of regicide

Effect: the audience feel shock and horror at the scale of the crime

There’s daggers in men’s smiles

Technique: metaphor

Context: with order broken deceit or replace trust

Intention: Shakespeare shows a kingdom poisoned by treachery

Effect: the audience see the ripple effect of Duncan‘s murder on the nation

Bleed, bleed poor country

Technique: personification of Scotland

Context: Scotland becomes a victim under the Macbeth tyranny

Intention: present Macbeth’s role as destructive to the nation it itself

Effect: the audience pity Scotland and yearn for Macbeth’s overthrow

Each new moon, new Windows howl new orphans cry

Technique: anaphoric and emotive imagery

Contact: Tierney is measured in human suffering

Intention: highlighted contrast between Duncans peace and Macbeth’s chaos

Effect: the audience feel moral outrage against Macbeth

I have lived long enough my way of life is fallen into the sere the yellow leaf

Technique: metaphor of autumn and decay

Context:kingship should bring honour in old age but Macbeth feels only decline

Intention: show the emptiness of ambition fulfilled through sin

Effect : The audience see kingship without virtue as hollow and tragic

Now does he feel his total hang loose about him like a giant robe upon a dwarfish thief?