4.5 assignment by Kaley Schmidt https://padlet.com/kasch946/l2vytce35wk6 Motifs in Macbeth en-us 2019-02-20 03:44:46 UTC 2025-09-30 00:18:07 UTC hello@padlet.com 1.3.20-21 kasch946 https://padlet.com/kasch946/l2vytce35wk6/wish/334669278 First Witch: "Sleep shall night nor day / Hang upon his penthouse lid"
This quote explains that after the witches grit Macbeth he will be in such great pain that he could never sleep. So night represents pain. ]]> 2019-02-25 01:59:29 UTC https://padlet.com/kasch946/l2vytce35wk6/wish/334669278 1.5.57-61 kasch946 https://padlet.com/kasch946/l2vytce35wk6/wish/334675702 Lady Macbeth: " Come, thick night, / And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell..."
Night signifies, evil. Lady Macbeth acts af if the night as a spirit and asks it to come cover her so she can kill. In this quote night is used as a shield for evil.
]]> 2019-02-25 02:34:59 UTC https://padlet.com/kasch946/l2vytce35wk6/wish/334675702 2.2.5-6 kasch946 https://padlet.com/kasch946/l2vytce35wk6/wish/334675936 Lady Macbeth: "It was the owl that shrieked, the fatal bellman / Which gives the stern'st good-night."
Lady Macbeth compared an owl's shriek to a death toll since Duncan will never wake from his sleep. Night is paired with death in this quote.
]]> 2019-02-25 02:36:49 UTC https://padlet.com/kasch946/l2vytce35wk6/wish/334675936 2.3.67-69 kasch946 https://padlet.com/kasch946/l2vytce35wk6/wish/334676063 Lennox: "The obscure bird / Clamored the livelong night. Some say the earth / Was feverous and did shake."
Although Lennox isn’t aware ofthe murder, the descriptive words create depressing and gloomy mood.
]]> 2019-02-25 02:37:39 UTC https://padlet.com/kasch946/l2vytce35wk6/wish/334676063 2.4.8-13 kasch946 https://padlet.com/kasch946/l2vytce35wk6/wish/334676503 Ross: "By th' clock 'tis day, / And yet dark night strangles the traveling lamp. / Is 't night's predominance or the day's shame / That darkness does the face of the earth entomb / When living life should kiss it?"
Ross is contrasting darkness and night and light and day. He feels as if night conveys darkness and evil and day is a hero who save the light. ]]> 2019-02-25 02:40:06 UTC https://padlet.com/kasch946/l2vytce35wk6/wish/334676503 3.1.28-30 kasch946 https://padlet.com/kasch946/l2vytce35wk6/wish/334676663 Banquo: "Go not my horse the better, / I must become a borrower of the night / For a dark hour or twain."
For Banquo, night represents suspicion and mystery seeing as he was weary of Macbeth.
]]> 2019-02-25 02:41:19 UTC https://padlet.com/kasch946/l2vytce35wk6/wish/334676663 3.1.38-39 kasch946 https://padlet.com/kasch946/l2vytce35wk6/wish/334676771 Macbeth: "Adieu, / Till you return at night. Goes Fleance with you?"
Once again,night represent the time if death because Macbeth was planning on killing Banquo.
]]> 2019-02-25 02:42:01 UTC https://padlet.com/kasch946/l2vytce35wk6/wish/334676771 3.2.52-56 kasch946 https://padlet.com/kasch946/l2vytce35wk6/wish/334677983 Macbeth: "Come, seeling night, / Scarf up the tender eye of pitiful day / And with thy bloody and invisible hand / Cancel and tear to pieces that great bond / Which keeps me pale."
In this quote night isn’t full of darkness, it is a safety blanket blocking out the bad.
]]> 2019-02-25 02:46:48 UTC https://padlet.com/kasch946/l2vytce35wk6/wish/334677983 3.2.59-60 kasch946 https://padlet.com/kasch946/l2vytce35wk6/wish/334678206 Macbeth: "Good things of day begin to droop and drowse, / Whiles night's black agents to their preys do / rouse."
The phrase ‘night’s black agents’ is a reference to the evil that emerges during the night.
]]> 2019-02-25 02:48:29 UTC https://padlet.com/kasch946/l2vytce35wk6/wish/334678206 3.5.20-21 kasch946 https://padlet.com/kasch946/l2vytce35wk6/wish/334678409 Hecate: "This night I'll spend / Unto dismal and a fatal end."
In this quote, night provides an increase to the evil vibe of the meeting.
]]> 2019-02-25 02:49:44 UTC https://padlet.com/kasch946/l2vytce35wk6/wish/334678409 4.1.48-49 kasch946 https://padlet.com/kasch946/l2vytce35wk6/wish/334678948 Macbeth: "How now, you secret, black, and midnight hags? / What is 't you do?"
The phrase ‘midnight hags’ refers to the evil presence the women bring during the night. ]]> 2019-02-25 02:53:02 UTC https://padlet.com/kasch946/l2vytce35wk6/wish/334678948 5.5.12-15 kasch946 https://padlet.com/kasch946/l2vytce35wk6/wish/334679833 Macbeth: "The time has been my senses would have cooled / To hear a night-shriek, and my fell of hair / Would at a dismal treatise rouse and stir / As life were in 't.
For Macbeth, night equates to fear and recalls to when he heard screams during the night. 
]]> 2019-02-25 02:58:09 UTC https://padlet.com/kasch946/l2vytce35wk6/wish/334679833 3.2.20-23 kasch946 https://padlet.com/kasch946/l2vytce35wk6/wish/334681243 Macbeth: "Ere we will eat our meal in fear, ad sleep / In the affliction of these terrible dreams / That shake us nightly."
In this quote, night represent terrors because nightmares haunted Macbeth in his sleep
]]> 2019-02-25 03:07:09 UTC https://padlet.com/kasch946/l2vytce35wk6/wish/334681243 2.3.61 kasch946 https://padlet.com/kasch946/l2vytce35wk6/wish/334707248 Lennox: "The night as been unruly."
This is foreshadowing and it shows that one bad night will lead to a bad time for the kingdom.
]]> 2019-02-25 05:45:11 UTC https://padlet.com/kasch946/l2vytce35wk6/wish/334707248 3.1.161-162 kasch946 https://padlet.com/kasch946/l2vytce35wk6/wish/334707571 Macbeth: "Banquo, thy soul's flight, / If it find heaven, must is find it out tonight."
The word might in this quote is referring to the ominous time in which the murder will have to be committed. 
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