Supernatural

Question 1

“Fair is foul and foul is fair”

Answer 1

• Act 1 scene 1
• equivocality, ambiguous, deliberately unclear
• Paradoxical language suggests what seems to be good can be evil and evil can be good
• Introduces the idea of moral confusion
• The use of Trechaic tetrameter makes the witches speech hypnotic, magical, mysterious, incantatory
• Further demonstrated through rhyming couplets making their speech sound unnatural, as if they were casting a spell
• Foreshadows the events of the play as ‘hero’ Macbeth hides his true evil nature and intentions