Key words

• Anachronism - Lady Macbeth doesn't fit into the eras ideas about women
• Macbeth is set in a martial society.
• Macbeth has an enigmatic opening
• eponymouse character - Macbeth shares name with title
• Equivocation - unlcear what the witches mean (fair is foul)
• Chiasmus- change in word order


  Fair is foul and foul is fair
• Trochaic - chanting rhythm


  Witches speech
• Paradox


  contradict itself (Fair is foul)
• Fricative


  repeated ffff sound (fair is foul)
• irony

  a situation in which there is a contrast between expectation and reality
• Chremamorphism - giving humans object-like qualities


  EG. unseamed him from the...
• Primogeniture- first born child takes throne


  Macbeth usurps the throne violating and disrupting primogeniture and great chain of being.