ENGL 1616 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Banquo, Precognition, Numerology
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Shakespeare believed in the great chain of beings. People come and go in the play macbeth without any permanence. Great chain of being = central motif. Macbeth and lady macbeth lead a nocturnal life in the second half of the book: their scenes are mainly at night and both have sleeping problems. All bad things happen at night mysterious and deadly. (cid:862)so foul a(cid:374)d fai(cid:396) a day i ha(cid:448)e (cid:374)ot see(cid:374)(cid:863) macbeth. Macbeth bargains with witches for information and premonitions. Secretly, macbeth has already wanted and thought about being king in his deepest fantasies. Interlocutor: anyone with whom you are having a conversation: needed for dialogue and the transferring of information. Finite knowledge and the notion of limit. What the (cid:449)it(cid:272)hes say is a(cid:373)(cid:271)iguous o(cid:374) pu(cid:396)pose, they do(cid:374)"t gi(cid:448)e up information easily. (cid:862)thou shalt get ki(cid:374)gs, though (cid:271)e (cid:374)o(cid:374)e(cid:863) ~ p(cid:396)e(cid:373)o(cid:374)itio(cid:374) to ba(cid:374)(cid:395)uo that he will be father of kings.
