How Does Shakespeare Use Dramatic Devices In Macbeth

Shakespeare has used the opening scene as the dramatic device to draw the audience in and get them sitting on the edge of their seat. Furthermore, the witches give us the sight of what may be to come “When the battle is lost and won.” It says that every battle is lost by one side and won by another. Macbeth's fate is that he will win the physical battle, but will lose his victory for the battle of his soul. The riddle the witches talk in confuses us. It seems to resemble a nursery rhyme –rhyming couplets - however it is more sinister and evil. However, Shakespeare usually writes in Blank Verse, thus when we hear a more foreign way in which the Witches converse we sense they are more magical and different. In Jacobean times, this play would have a much more powerful effect on the audience because the idea of witches and witchcraft because they believed it was actually possible and even held trials of women who they believed to possessed evil powers and
“Thunder and lightning. Enter three witches” He uses this technique to highlight the importance of an occurred event. It shows us that nature is mirroring what is happening in the human world. Connecting the audience knowledge and belief of the great chain of being. The belief that everyone has a rightful place in society. Any break in the established order of nature and the heavens was understood to come with dire consequences, often manifested in the physical world by illness and natural disaster. For example, when Macbeth kills Duncan there are many unnatural occurrences, "On Tuesday last, a falcon, towering in her pride of place, was by a mousing owl hawk'd at and kill'd" An owl which is recognised as a lesser bird, killed a falcon, known as the more majestic bird. King Duncans’ beautiful and swift horses “turned wild in nature, broke their stalls, flung out, Contending 'gainst obedience, as they would Make war with