Macbeth building suspense in act2
Macbeth building suspense in act2Shakespeare uses many images and situations in order to build suspense. Act II is the act that the murder of the king takes place because of this the suspense that is built in this act is particularly important. In scene one,(lines 33-61) the dagger soliloquy builds suspense while Macbeth is waiting for the time to come when he is going to kill the king. One of the ways that he builds suspense in this soliloquy is by giving the audience the fear that Macbeth might get caught before he has even committed the crime. “Hear not my steps, which way they walk, for fear/ Thy very stones prate of my whereabout,/ And take the present horror from the time,/ Which now suits with it.” (lines 57-60)
Scene II is full of suspense. Shakespeare uses visual and auditory images in this scene to add to the anticipation of the inevitable discovering of the body. Some examples of these images are when the constant knocking interrupts their conversation throughout the scene. This makes the characters fearful and the audience curious as to what is going to happen. To add to the suspense of the images Shakespeare added a time problem in this scene. The two...
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