Macbeth: Darkness

Question 1

Act 2 Scene 4

dark n’ night fight

Answer 1

‘And yet dark night strangles the travelling lamp/Is’t nights predominance or the day’s shame’
- DARKNESS
- eclipse after the death, symbolistic

Ross

Question 2

Act 5 Scene 1

light continous

Answer 2

‘She has light by her continually/ ‘tis her command’
- LIGHT/DARK, GUILT
- LNK contrast to dunnest smoke of hell, fears of hell now
- LIGHT REPRESENTS GOD/HEAVEN

Gentlewoman

Question 3

Act 5 Scene 1

out of hell by bryson tiller

Answer 3

‘Out, damned spot. Out I say…/Hell is murky’
- GUILT, BLOOD, DARKNESS, RELIGION
- LM sleepwalking
- LNK dunnest smoke of hell

LM

Question 4

Act 5 Scene 5

brief candle

Answer 4

‘Out, out, brief candle./Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player/ That struts and frets his hour upon stage/ And is heard no more’
- LIGHT/DARK
- Macbeth grieveing over LM death and point of life

Question 5

Act 5 Scene 5

tired of the sun

Answer 5

‘I ‘gin to be aweary of the sun/ And wish the estate of the world were now undone’
- DARKNESS
- M is tired of life and doesnt see the point after LM

M