Aim: How is Pathetic Fallacy used to illustrate the unnatural order of the Macbeth universe?
At the beginning of the lesson, we discussed a series of quotes and dug deeper into the meaning behind each of them.
“The Second Look” brief explanations for each quote:
1. The Fool’s Rule, Porter is being drunk and foolish.
2. He’s pretending to be the porter of hell, he’s trying to be funny, example of dramatic irony, and it he’s trying to say that sweating out water means you’re not going to be cleaning anything.
3. Referring someone to being cold, which means they have no feelings, or no heart.
4. Even though Macbeth is planning on killing all these people, he’ll eventually get caught, Macbeth is being phony, he talk his way out of this scenario, but not the big picture.
5. Makes Lady Macbeth brave and makes the guards pass out, which all in all led to the murder.
6. Relating back to the talk about lechery, Macbeth had this desire to kill Duncan, but now he’s freaking out, made him believe he can do something, but now he feels terrible about it.
We then discussed the meaning of karma:
The class agreed on the meaning, “what goes around, comes around”
Then we were introduced to a new form of personification known as Pathetic Pallacy.
Pathetic Pallacy - “poetic practice of attributing human emotion or responses to nature, inanimate objects, or animals. The practice is a form of personification that is as old as poetry, in which it has always been common to find smiling or dancing flowers, angry or cruel winds, brooding mountains, moping owls, or happy larks”
It is another way for the author to illustrate was is happening in a certain scene.
Nature is going to respond to what is happening.
For example Macbeth kills Duncan, and in the play, the owl makes noise all night, the earth shakes, and people begin to hear things.
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