Darkness imagery depicts evil in Macbeth
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Darkness imagery depicts evil in Macbeth
Darkness in our world today usually indicates of evil. For some examples, a black cat, a dark night, a full moon, and a dark alley place are all symbols of evil. Authors like to use these symbols to describe an evil character or setting or set a gloomy type mood. You'll see this a lot in some movies too, such as the villains in the subway, the alley, or underground. Shakespeare likes to use this type imagery of darkness in Act 4. The witches, Macbeth, and Scotland are all described as dark to set the mood for the reader. This is also used sometimes to 'draw the line' between the good guys and the bad guys easiler.
The witches in scene 1 of Act 4 are described as evil because of the dark imagery used in this section. The witches also meet in a dark cave. The cave is a good setting for witches because caves represent darkness and a gloomy hiding places, sort of like an underworld, which creates a feeling of evil in the scene to add to the suspense of the story...