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There are mostly upper class persons in this play, and some lower class ones as well.
Upper-class characters include: Macbeth, Lady Macbeth, Duncan, Malcolm, Donalbain, Banquo, Fleance, Macduff and his family, Ross, Lennox, Siward, Young Siward, Menteith. Lower-class characters include: servants, murderers, The Porter. There is only one middle-class character: the Doctor Who is called to attend on Lady Macbeth. The witches are not of this world, and so have no social standing at all.
You may think from what your English teacher told you that characters are upper class because they speak in Iambic Pentameter. It doesn't work that way. The characters speak iambic pentameter because they are upper class. When Lady Macbeth has her sleepwalking scene and starts talking in rambling prose, her social status does not change as a result; she is still the queen and so is still upper class no matter how she speaks.
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∙ 6y agoShakespeare's plays notoriously have characters from every social class, from kings to petty thieves and prostitutes, and including those in between, including merchants, and moneylenders, and soldiers, and shepherds, and tradesmen. Their roles in the plays mirrored their roles in real life.
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What characters speak in blank verse?
Shakespeare had most of his characters speak in blank verse. He went into prose when the characters were of a lower class, or where the character is comic. For example, the Porter in Macbeth speaks in prose, when the rest speak in verse. The witches have a tendency to rhyme as well.
How did Shakespeare create a distinction between the educated nobility and the lower class?
by having noble characters speak in iambic pentameter, while the lower classes spoke in plain blank verse or prose.
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I think that the lower class people like tituba and other helpers were eaiser to accues because they had no rights and no say.Abbigale was high middle class because of her relations to Paris which is upper class and so she had the power like any upper class people in society to accuse the lower class people without being douted.
What kind of characters does Shakespeare use?
Just about everybody speaks in unrhymed verse called blank verse. Some minor characters never do, and many characters switch to ordinary prose from time to time, but most of them use blank verse as a rule.
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