Macbeth

• • "Stars hide your fires. Let no light see my black and deep desires" (Act 4)
• Dark and light imagery:

  The contrast between the ominous connotations associated with "black" and the bright imagery linked to "light" highlights Macbeth's dichotomous
• • Despite projecting a virtuous facade of an upright Jacobean man, he harbours malevolent and tyrannical intentions. Macbeth wants to shroud his sinister motives in metaphorical darkness, as if his true intentions come to"light" this would obstruct him from acquiring his illegitimate title of King.
• Rhyming couplot: 


  The rhyme between "desires" and "fires" in this couplet has a resemblance to the enchanting spellcasting technique employed by the Witches, who also utilise rhyming couplets to accentuate their deceptions.
• This emphasises Macbeth's descent into a shadowy and malevolent trajectory as he is asking for his duplicitous intentions to be revealed so he can fulfil his ambitious egocentric desires
• ‘i heard a voice cry 'Sleep no more! Macbeth does murder sleep'" (Act 2)
• Motif of sleep:


  Throughout the play, there is a recurring motif that makes sleep synonymous innocence. Macbeth, troubled by guilt, experiences a disturbed sleep pattern, symbolising his departure from a state of innocence.
• This disintegration of innocence is a direct consequence of his deceitful actions in seizing the throne and committing regicide . Macbeth's descent into madness is evident, as he no longer issues imperative commands like "stars hide your fires." Instead, he reflects on the mental anguish and haunting "cries" that torment his troubled mind.
• exclamative sentence:

  The exclamative sentence "Sleep no more!" emphasises the enduring + irreversible nature of Macbeth's loss of sleep + innocence. His disruption of the natural order through his wickedness, masked by a facade of moral piety

  ’ has forever condemned his mind to the relentless torment of guilt
• Sempiternally , he will battle with moral restlessness, finding no redemption or salvation for the sins he has committed as a murderous tyrant who defied the innate moral order and natural order.