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Macbeth Quotes Lord Of The Flies
× sleep: most vulnerable, innocent and yet prone to nightmare and hidden desires and fears; the dark, unconscious, unknown, uncontrolled and yet necessary realm of experience
× struggle between conscious and unconscious; controlled and uncontrolled behavior
× equivocation--the porter; fair is foul; confusion; dreams equivocate; ghosts; witches; prophcies; bubbles in the earth; equivocation of the fiend V.vi. 43
× tyranny and tyrannicide...problem of evil; integrity, saving faith; mistrust--Noriega, Cieaucescu
× nature, kindness, growth, fertility, chain of generations, love, beauty vs. unnatural, monstruousity
× as much of heaven as of hell--anti atheism V.i. 41: "What need we fear who knows it, when none can call our pow'r to accompt." didacticism; …show more content…
uses same symbol for unpredictable future as for pity (218)
× also plant symbolism
× movement of wood: nature rises against him in seeming; clothes symbolism--clothed in manliness is to reject babe
× Macduff ripped untimely from womb--unpredictable child; unpredictability of child and future; unpredictable breaking through net of calculation; naked babe is Macduff
× pity like new born babe is weak and yet fierce--strding the blast; avenging angel of apocalypse
× eye of childhood fears a painted devil--Lady Macbeth; sceptical rationalism like Edmunds
× imagery of clothing and nakedness--cf. Lear and Tempest
× OJ Campbell's attack on new criticism Signet 221
× forcing meanings--ungenerous,
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