Such foul a fair a day I have not seen. Macbeth says this in the very beginning of the book. It becomes ironic to think about as we get further into the book. He is talking about how he is finally out of war then later in the play he starts murdering people.
Macbeth becomes a terrible person. He starts to act different when he is faced with true power in the book. He is told by the witches that he will be king so he starts to want to do anything to get there. He even murders someone who he was always loyal too. Which is a different person than we saw with the line"Such foul a fair a day I have not seen."
Alex, I agree with your post that this quote is very important and we talk about it frequently in class. It foreshadows the events and how Macbeth is going to act later on in the book.
ReplyDeleteHey Alex, you have some really good points here about irony. There's also the concept of what happens to the fool and what happens to the fair. Based on this quote, fair things happen to the fool, however fool things happen to the fair. As the situation with Duncan implies.
ReplyDeleteGood post, Bailey
Good observation of the irony going on here, I like your point you're making.
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