Month: October 2016

Macbeth says that he’ll need to kill the Prince of Cumberland’ as next in line. So Macbeth is thinking how is he going to be king if the prince is in my way and even though he is power hungry and wants to kill them he still feels this guiltiness and a sense of loyalty and feels ashamed of himself for thinking those thoughts. ‘Stars, hide your fires; let not light see my black and deep desires’ It suggests needs to hides his desires as they are showing too much.

‘As two spent swimmers that do cling together and choke their art’ This is a metaphor used by the soldier which shows imagery of the ‘two swimmers’ (being the two armies) and that they are ‘spent’ (tired), the soldier goes on to say ‘and choke their art’ it implies that the two swimmers are losing they’re energy, which means they start to drown and that results the two armies being in a tie or stalemate.