LECO52030 MEGHA PRAKASH Significance of the Equivocation in Macbeth, Critical analysis of Equivocation.

Q.   What is the significance of the reference to the Equivocation in 'Macbeth'?

 

A) • Equivocation in Shakespeare's play 'Macbeth' plays a crucial role in concealing the facts.

• Macbeth, Lady Macbeth, Witches, and Porter functions as Equivocators inorder to transcend the emotional feelings in the mind of spectators.

• Witches equivocates their apparations and seems to be trustworthy towards Macbeth.

• Macbeth and Lady Macbeth pretended mourning in the death of Duncan and brings out the irony.

• Porter functions as a bridge between Duncan's murder and it's discovery with the help of equivocation.

• Because of the Equivocation, Macbeth leads himself into the tragic flaw.

Q. Critically discuss the significance of the reference to Shakespeare's play 'Macbeth '

Draft 1

• Equivocation is the use of ambiguous expression inorder conceal the truths.

• The trait of equivocator is clearly evident in most of the characters of the play.

• The Equivocation ancticipated the plot of the play 'Macbeth'

•The same plight of equivocator is faced by Macbeth himself.

• Equivocation is used effectively to illustrate the evil nature of most of the characters in the play.

Draft 2 

• The Equivocation in the play 'Macbeth' has attracted many critical commentaries and conjecture.

• As a dramatisation of an episode of Scottish history, the play is associated with the reigning Monarch  James l (patron of Shakespeare's company )

• The gunpowder plot of 1605 is dramatically relevant providing the religious background of the period in which the play was written.

• The Porter functions as comic relief , lessening the tension in the audience after the murder of King Duncan.

• The anticipation of the plot of the play is took forward with the apparently irrelevant and comic incidents.