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The main reason Shakespeare's plays are difficult for modern readers to understand is that they are mostly written in poetry and quite dense and difficult poetry at that. Shakespeare also often writes in long and complicated sentences which are tricky to unravel. Although a lot of people focus on unusual words in Shakespeare's vocabulary, these are not the most significant reasons why his plays are hard to understand.
For example, Macbeth says "But here, upon this bank and shoal of time, we'd jump the life to come." Every word is a perfectly ordinary modern word which Shakespeare uses with its modern meaning. There isn't even the odd syntax he sometimes uses to improve the rhythm of his lines. And yet this is a difficult line to understand. Why does Shakespeare have Macbeth compare time to a river, and the present to a bank or shoal? Why jump the future?
Supporting sentences use ideas and facts to support the thesis or main idea.
Blank verse is a form of verse that uses iambic pentameter.
Ha Schult's birth name is Hans-Jrgen Schult.
To help the audience follow what is happening in the play
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To get an answer, you should give sentences to choose from.
It has five metrical feet that each contain an unstressed syllable immediately followed by a stressed one.
Where is Macbeth going when he sees the bloody dagger?
First in Act 1 Scene 3
FIRST WITCH. All hail, Macbeth, hail to thee, Thane of Glamis!
SECOND WITCH. All hail, Macbeth, hail to thee, Thane of Cawdor!
THIRD WITCH. All hail, Macbeth, that shalt be King hereafter!...
Then in Act 4 scene 1
The witches call up an apparition, an Armed Head, which tells Macbeth "Beware Macduff," (who ends up killing Macbeth).
Then, a Bloody Child appears, that says "none of woman born / Shall harm Macbeth," (which reassures him, because he doesn't know Macduff had a Caesarean birth).
A Crowned Child appears next, holding a tree in his hand, who tells him that he will not be "vanquished" until "Great Birnam Wood to high Dunsinane Hill / Shall come against him,"
Julate is the sun
art thou afeared / to be the same in thine own act and valour / as thou art in desire?
He is complex, with both good and bad qualities.
