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Imagery and Symbols in “Macbeth”

Shakespeare’s Usage of Imagery in Macbeth.

The Imagery in Macbeth appears to be more rich and varied, more highly imaginative, more unapproachable by any other writer than that of any other single play. A. C. Bradley has superbly commented

“The vividness, magnitude and violence of the imagery in some of the passages are characteristics of Macbeth almost throughout.” Keats says “Shakespeare led a life of allegory; his works are the comment of it.”

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