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Hi, need to submit a 750 words paper on the topic Symbolism in Shakespeare's Macbeth.

Hi, need to submit a 750 words paper on the topic Symbolism in Shakespeare's Macbeth. The plot is woven through a series of symbols and images that are essential to the play’s setting. It opens with the witches’ scene and darkness all around. The dark hours are always associated with the evil which is about to take place. The symbol of blood and the disturbing weather emerge from the darkness and plague Macbeth and his surroundings. As the play opens, three witches appear on the scene asking as to whether their next meeting would be in “thunder, lightning, or in rain?” Hence from the very beginning, the symbol of darkness is introduced with only a few lines later, Macbeth is also mentioned. This is a foreshadowing of the events that will take place in the play. Darkness is always associated with evil and wickedness. Shakespeare employs these images to reveal the tools of disorder and the evil on which the character acts upon. The witches are the very first instruments which lead to disorder and havoc. Their appearance of witches is described by Macbeth himself as secretive and black: “How now, you secret, black, and midnight hags!” (Macbeth Act IV.i) but yet he believes in their prophecy. Even Banquo, who is with Macbeth at the time when the witches prophesize about them, speaks of them as: “The instruments of darkness tell us truths,&nbsp./Win us with honest trifles, to betray's&nbsp./In deepest consequence” (Macbeth Act I.i).

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