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Macbeth Essay Vocab

QuestionAnswer
Ambition desire for power or advancement
Hubris dangerous overconfidence
Moral conflict inner struggle between right and wrong
Corruption loss of innocence or virtue
Manipulation controlling others for personal gain
Complicity being involved in wrongdoing
Conscience inner sense of right and wrong
Resolve firm determination
Ominous suggesting something bad will happen
Foreboding a sense of coming danger
Sinister threatening or evil
Bleak dark and hopeless
Turbulent chaotic and unstable
Power control or authority
Legitimacy rightful rule
Fate vs. free will destiny vs. choice
Appearance vs. reality things are not what they seem
The supernatural forces beyond nature
Order and chaos stability vs. disorder
Imagery descriptive language that creates pictures
Symbolism when something represents a deeper meaning
Motif a recurring element with significance
Soliloquy a character speaking their thoughts alone on stage
Dramatic irony the audience knows more than characters
Juxtaposition placing opposites side by side for contrast
Shakespeare + verb + literary device + theme + effect Shakespeare uses ominous imagery to reinforce the theme of ambition and its corrupting power.
 

 



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