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Oxymorons in Shakespeare's Macbeth

Shakespeare

What is an oxymoron ?

Greatest writer in the history of England. mostly known for his plays.

April 1564. Warwickshire.

-Hamlet

-Rome and Juliet

-Othello

-Macbeth

- figure of speech

- opposite ideas to make a point

“The silence after that joke was deafening”

vs contradiction in terms

vs paradox

Macbeth

The 3 witches and their prophecy.

Killing king Duncan.

Fearful of Banquo. Increasing resistance from his nobles.

To the witches again. Macduff, no man of woman born can hurt him and safe until Birnam wood.

Macduff and Malcolm. Lady Macbeth kills herself

Oxymorons in Macbeth

"foul is fair and fair is foul"

"my dull brain was wrought with things forgotten"

"there is no art to find the mind's construction in the face"

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