ENGL 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Fallacy, Banquo, Lady Macduff
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In macbeth, nature finally asserts itself discharge their secrets (5. 1) Doctor unnatural deeds do breed unnatural troubles; infected minds to their pillows will. Macbeth why do i yield to that suggestion whose horrid image doth unfix my hair and make my seated hart knock at my ribs against the use of nature? (1. 3) Lady macbeth these deeds must not be the thought. After these ways; so, it will make us mad (2. 2) Thane of glamis and thane cawdor should sleep no more. In the renaissance, humans were thought to be a microcosm or little world . Any disturbance in the natural rule of the soul over the body created an unnatural breakdown. The macrocosm , like the microcosm was an interconnected hierarch or chain of being . Hence, in the larger world, a disturbance of the human hierarchy also causes havoc throughout nature. Some say the earth was feverous and id shake (2. 3, p 133)
