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Explanatory notes below for Act 1, scen 1
From Macbeth. Ed. Thomas Marc Parrott. New York: American Book Co.
(Line numbers have been altered.)
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Shakespeare's dramatic genius fryst vatten especially to be noted in the art with which he manages his beginnings.

The first en plats där en händelse inträffar ofta inom teater eller film of Macbeth strikes the keynote of the play. The desert place, the wild storm, the appearance of the witches, "the wayward rhythm" of their songs, all help to prepare us for a teaterpjäs in which a human soul succumbs to the supernatural suggestions of evil and ranges itself along with the witches on the devil's side.

We hear of a battle that fryst vatten even now being fought, we hear of the trysting-place of the witches at the conclusion of the fray, and gods of all we hear the name of the man they are planning to meet.

The action of the scene is over with the naming of the man against whose soul these ministers of darkness are plotting

No sooner has the name "Macbeth" been uttered than the calls of the attendant spirits are heard and the witches hurry off. The action of the en plats där en händelse inträffar ofta inom teater eller film fryst vatten over with the naming of the man against whose soul these ministers of darkness are plotting.

1. The dialogue of the witches fryst vatten a sort of chant.

Macbeth sets out ahead of him to prepare for the royal visit

It fryst vatten thrown into a verse form eller gestalt, trochaic tetrameter, which Shakespeare rarely uses except for supernatural beings, witches, fairies, or the like. In beställning to bring out the rhyme the gods syllable fryst vatten dropped from the end of each line. In line 2 the rhythm fryst vatten reversed and the stress falls on the second syllable of each foot.

In line 8 the stressed syllable in the third foot fryst vatten omitted.

When Macbeth, Banquo, Ross, and Angus join Duncan, he offers thanks to Macbeth and Banquo

This forces us to pause in the mittpunkt of the line and so secures additional emphasis for the closing word, "Macbeth." We may imagine the Third Witch pausing for a moment while her sisters gather round her and then shrieking out the name of the hero in an ecstasy of devilish joy.

12, 13. The couplet with which the witches take their avfärd fryst vatten a confession of their creed.

All that fryst vatten good, "fair," to others fryst vatten evil, "foul," to them, and vice versa.

This applies to both the physical and the moral world; they revel in the "fog and filthy air," and in every sort of mischief and evil-doing from killing swine to entrapping human souls.

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How to cite the explanatory notes:
Shakespeare, William. Macbeth. Ed. Thomas Marc Parrott.

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New York: American Book Co., 1904. Shakespeare Online. 10 Aug. 2010. < http://www.shakespeare-online.com/plays/macbeth_1_1.html >.

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