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    1) The document discusses three questions about setting, genre, and characterization in Act 1 of Shakespeare's Macbeth. 2) For the first question, the summary is that the witches will meet Macbeth before sunset on the moor. 3) For the second question, the response is that the play is not a comedy or normal historical drama, as evidenced by the supernatural elements and references to the witches' spells in the quoted text. 4) For the third question, the line "So foul and fair a day I have not seen" echoes a line said by the witches earlier, and Shakespeare repeats it to tie Macbeth's characterization to the witches and show

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    1) The document discusses three questions about setting, genre, and characterization in Act 1 of Shakespeare's Macbeth. 2) For the first question, the summary is that the witches will meet Macbeth before sunset on the moor. 3) For the second question, the response is that the play is not a comedy or normal historical drama, as evidenced by the supernatural elements and references to the witches' spells in the quoted text. 4) For the third question, the line "So foul and fair a day I have not seen" echoes a line said by the witches earlier, and Shakespeare repeats it to tie Macbeth's characterization to the witches and show

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    1) The document discusses three questions about setting, genre, and characterization in Act 1 of Shakespeare's Macbeth. 2) For the first question, the summary is that the witches will meet Macbeth before sunset on the moor. 3) For the second question, the response is that the play is not a comedy or normal historical drama, as evidenced by the supernatural elements and references to the witches' spells in the quoted text. 4) For the third question, the line "So foul and fair a day I have not seen" echoes a line said by the witches earlier, and Shakespeare repeats it to tie Macbeth's characterization to the witches and show

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    Question 1 is on "setting", the dramatic time and the place, mentioned in Act One Scene One of

    "Macbeth":
    THIRD WITCH.
    That will be ere the set of sun.
    FIRST WITCH.
    Where the place?
    SECOND WITCH.
    Upon the heath.

    When will they meet Macbeth ("ere the set of sun"), and where? You must explain in your answer what
    the words actually mean, in your own words. Use synonyms from our Thesauruses to use your own
    words to answer my Question 1.

    Question 2
    This question is on genre:

    1)They will meet Macbeth before the sunset, and near the moor

    THIRD WITCH.
    A drum, a drum!
    Macbeth doth come.
    ALL WITCHES.
    The Weird Sisters, hand in hand,
    Posters of the sea and land,
    Thus do go about, about:
    Thrice to thine, and thrice to mine,
    And thrice again, to make up nine.
    Peace!—the charm’s wound up.
    Only from these words I have quoted above, which words and/or phrases can you identify that persuade

    2)In my opinion, I don’t think this play is a comedy or a normal historical drama. There’s no humorous
    dialogues and it’s a kind of myth, not a historical drama. Because we can see the supernatural powers and
    murderousness all over the play. According to the dialogues above, ‘ The Weird Sisters, hand in hand,
    Posters of the sea and land, Thus do go about, about: Thrice to thine, and thrice to mine, And thrice again, to
    make up nine. Peace! —the charm’s wound up.’ proves my answer. In folklore, three was a magical number.
    That’s why the three witches join hands and circle around nine times (three times three), while casting a spell.
    Once they’ve done so, the charm is “wound up,” meaning it’s ready to be cast. All they have to do now is wait
    for Macbeth and Banquo to come along and fall under its power.

    you that the GENRE of this theatre play is NOT a comedy or NOT a normal historical drama! (50 - 60
    words, please.)

    Question 3
    This below is a great line from Act One, Scene Three! Such a powerful, enthralling, enticingly fateful line
    of drama and poetry!
    The question then, is this, about characterization:
    MACBETH.
    So foul and fair a day I have not seen.
    3a) Can you spot this line above as an echo in a line in the opening scene, Act One Scene One?

    3b) Why does Shakespeare write Macbeth's words as repeating other characters' words from earlier in
    the Act? Now, we can assume Shakespeare was never a lazy writer, of course, so why the repetition of
    almost the same words just 2 scenes later after these words were first said? What does it tell us (as the
    confused audience) about the characterization of Macbeth as hero, anti-hero, villain, demon ...?

    It is to use the power of repetition. The repetition or restatement of an idea at intervals


    not only promotes clarity, but encourages the acceptance of an idea. When you repeat
    and emphasize one idea, competing ideas are subordinated and sometimes are driven
    completely out of the audience's mind. And I also think that Shakespeare repeats the
    witches' line in order to tie him to the witches. Simply, for witches it means whatever
    is fair to a common man is foul to them, and what is foul to a common man is fair to
    them. If we recall the story of the play, this phrase refers to Macbeth as well, as he
    does everything that he formerly considered foul.

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