How Is Darkness Used In Macbeth

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Shakespeare mentioned animals and objects represent the darkness frequently while he was hinting something about one’s fate. Lady Macbeth was trying to utilize the signs of nature to convince her husband that they would be successful since the nature turned the power to their hands. She said with confidence and determination, “ It was owl that shrieked, the fatal bellman, which gives to the sternest good-night.” Firstly, Owl is a figure of bellman and its hoot represents the death and evil. Good night and owl’s hoot all contributes to their motivation on Duncan’s death later. While the audience was reading this part, the imagery of Lady Macbeth’s ruthlessness and inhumanity when she desired higher status and power paved the way for deeper sins in the later. When light cannot overcome darkness, or justice was hidden, the atmosphere leads to a helpless feeling. The old man used metaphor to tell the tragedy that happened, “ Thou seest the heavens, as troubled with man’s act, threatens his bloody stage. By th' clock ’tis day, and yet dark night strangles the travelling lamp. Is ’t night’s predominance or the day’s shame that darkness does the face of Earth entomb when living light should kiss it? ” (Act 2, Scene 4) The order and balance of the nature was interrupted and the transformation on the relationship between light and darkness sounds similar with Duncan and Macbeth’s. The earthquake and storms served as precursors of this unusual phenomenon which gives audience a hint of the horrible unexpected scenes