Features+of+Drama

__**Key Drama Features in Macbeth **__

Solioquoys  – give us the internal conflict, motivations, psychology of characters.

Dramatic Asides - Show the hypocrisy of characters

Settings  - heath, castles, caves /lighting/sound effects

Supernatural - witches, illusions, forest moving

Contrasting Characters – e.g. Macbeth and Banquo. Or Macbeth and Macduff. Or Lady Macbeth and Lady MacDuff. Or King Duncan and King MacBeth

Dramatic irony - often the characters say something which later is proved to be opposite. E.g. King Duncan outside the castle. Or Macbeth saying to Macduff he is invincible because no man can kill him. Or, ‘For I fear he is too full of the milk of human kindness.’

Contrasting/contradictory statements  – ‘so fair and foul a day I have not seen’, ‘lesser than Macbeth and greater’, ‘What he hath lost, noble Macbeth hath won.” ( Duncan about Cawdor) ‘This supernatural soliciting cannot be ill, cannot be good.’ Show confusion and the influence of the witches.

<span style="color: #00abff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Dramatic justice <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> - Macbeth gets his just rewards in the end, so does Lady Macbeth. So does, Banquo and Malcolm. So does Macduff.

<span style="color: #00abff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Comic relief - <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The porter opening the door scene. Macduff’s wife talking to his son scene.

<span style="color: #00abff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Symbolism <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> - Blood, Sleep, Disease, Clothes, Religion, the Unnatural – disorder in world, clothes.