A Bloody Night :: essays research papers

William Shakespeare once said, For I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright, who maneuver as black as hell, as dark as night. Deception plays a big part in the play Macbeth. The play is some a baron who is murdered by one of his most trusted men trying to gain power. During the play Shakespeare heightens the mood by using various accounts of imagery. The product line and night imagery that Shakespeare uses adds to the nuisance, duskiness 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 heap of hell, That my keen knife see not 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 bolt down the king as she did. The night, however, gives her the impression that Macbeth can indeed kill King Duncan with no one uncovering his contemptible crime, the same ide a that Macbeth had when he said, "Stars, wipe out 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 story occurs in the nighttime. Lennox states, "... the obscure bird Clamored the livelong night. Some say, the earth Was feverous 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 think up well Within the volume of which time I have seen Hours of dreadful and things strange, but this sore night Hath tri fled former knowings." Both these quotes are talking about the night of Duncans death. They are showing the comparisons between the natural unruliness and the unusual disaster. In the play, the word blood is mentioned numerous times. Shakespeares use of this item word is significant he uses it to develop the character of Macbeth and the unfolding events of the drama.