Macbeth
In Our Time: Culture
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The Great Speeches
Shakespeare mixes monosyllables with poly syllabic words so that we stumble over those polysymalamic words in psychological empathy with macbeth, as it were. The way in which he invokes the gathering darkness, both in terms of the night falling, but also the gathering darkness of what they are about to do. When he says, nigh as the one half of the world, nature seems dead and wicked dreams abuse the curtained sleep,. Witchcraft celebrates pale hecket's offerings and withered murder, alarmed by sentinel, wolf, wolf, et cetera. At the end of that speech, he says, i go, and it is done.
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