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1. I think that Shakespeare wrote in blank verse because sometimes when I am reading something that rhymes and is super long I eventually don't even understand what I am reading, I think it aids the drama even if it is confusing. I'm just thinking about all the words rhymes and kinda give myself a beat to go off of. So I'm not actually focusing on the sentence just the words that are rhyming. Shakespeare seemed to smart, and plus that is how a lot of things were written back then.

2. I think that Banquo means that we are deceived really easily by lies and that when we do believe all these lies it can have a deep consequence. When I read this, I kinda thought of Satan. Satan and his followers can be the "instruments" of darkness that tells us lies. And when we believe those lies we get farther …show more content…

I think that Macbeth means that he wish he could have said something to his wife before she died but eventually everybody dies.
"All our have lighted fools that way to dusty death."

Shakespeare uses a walking shadow to metaphor life. He also calls life a player. I think meaing an actor, on a stage that is doing all his lines and things he needs to do but he does it for no reason because no one is listening and soon that hour is going to run out and be useless.
You can tell that his state of mind at this point is at an all time low. He is calling life pointless and he hardly seems to care that his wife died because he feels he's already dead mentally and emotionally. I think that it is ironic with the drama of the play. He is saying that his wife would have died eventually, but his wife died because he killed someone. A death in return for another death. He loses his own life too and I think that kinda goes in hand with the family that he had murdered. I read Macbeth the first time my senior year of highschool and my reaction was that I felt bad but at the same time I feel like he got what he deserved. He is the reason that all of this happened, he was too power

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