Classwork (Homework) Definition of Key Terms.

Dramatic Irony: Click on the picture to see the original link.

1. Pathetic fallacy:is when a character’s emotions (atmosphere) is reflected by the nature. E.g. When a character is crying it starts raining, or when a character is angry there will be lighting.
Example from Macbeth; Act 1 Scene 1.
The night that Macbeth decides to kill Duncan. Their were no stars in the sky.

Banquo,” Hold, take my sword – there’s husbandry in heaven, their candles are all out.- ”
(Macbeth, Act 2 Scene 1, lines 4 and 5.)

That shows how big the tension and the distribution that the killing of Duncan plan did.

2. Paradox: is when two things that cannot be occurring in the time, happen in the same time.

ALL:
Fair is foul, and foul is fair: 
Hover through the fog and filthy air.
(Macbeth, Act 1 Scene 1, lines 12 and 13.

Metaphysics: Physics is the act of observing things that exist, e.g. atoms, mass, movement…etc. Meta is the Greek prefix that means beyond. So if something is metaphysical it means that it is beyond being observed. E.g. God, Heaven and Hell,love…
So when Macbeth is talking about an imaginary dagger, that he is the only one that can see it, and he cannot feel it. That is metaphysical because the dagger can not be treated and observed.

Macbeth: 

Is this a dagger which I see before me,

The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee.

I have thee not, and yet I see thee still.

Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible

To feeling as to sight? Or art thou but

A dagger of the mind, a false creation,

Proceeding from the heat-oppressèd brain?

I see thee yet, in form as palpable

As this which now I draw.