Language
![Picture](/uploads/2/0/6/8/20682300/2880970.jpg?170)
In this passage, Lady Macbeth attempts to conjure evil spirits to encourage her to kill Duncan, and block her from feeling guilty. She uses language that is similar to the witches’ language when she repeats the word "come" as though she is producing a spell and calling on the spirits. The repetition of “come” at the beginning of each line is known as anaphora, a rhetorical device used to convey a reader to consider a topic from a different perspective. Lady Macbeth also says "Great Glamis! Worthy Cawdor! Greater than both, by
the all-hail hereafter." which is a parallelism to the witches giving the prophecy to Macbeth in Scene 3. Shakespeare also uses the ‘rule of three’ in the anaphora and Lady Macbeth’s echo of the witches’ address to
Macbeth.
the all-hail hereafter." which is a parallelism to the witches giving the prophecy to Macbeth in Scene 3. Shakespeare also uses the ‘rule of three’ in the anaphora and Lady Macbeth’s echo of the witches’ address to
Macbeth.