How Does Shakespeare Use Literary Devices

In the story, The Tragedy of Macbeth, William Shakespeare uses many different types of literary devices to his advantage. Throughout the play, he uses these devices to make the audience feel whichever way Shakespeare chooses. By doing this, he has complete control over what the audience is feeling and whom he wants the audience to sympathize. Because Shakespeare controls the play, he uses these literary devices to give the audience a deeper emotional connection with the characters and the plights the characters endure. By controlling the audience into feeling whatever way he desires, Shakespeare can effectively tell the story in which he would like to tell. In this paper, it is evident that William Shakespeare uses the literary devices of character, imagery and dialogue to convey a sense of overall dread and suspicion throughout the main characters, which in turn influences the way they act, as well as where they take the story. One of the many literary devices that William Shakespeare uses is that of character.

He uses the dialogue to let the reader get inside of what a certain character is thinking. Shakespeare uses many asides; a comment directed at the audience that the rest of the characters in the play do not hear, to educate the audience to what is going on internally in a character. Not only does the dialogue help to fit into the period that the play is set, but it also shows the motives and desires of each character. Such wants present themselves through the tone and choice of their words that the speaker uses. Characters in The Tragedy of Macbeth frequently let others know what they want by just speaking certain things. Finally, the dialogue is used in such a way that can be easily controlled and manipulated by Shakespeare. He chooses what words each character says and how they react to the words spoken by the person before them, all to create a solid, tension-building