To earn this badge I will break down and define the 3 lines below.
I go, and it is done; the bell invites me. Hear it not, Duncan; for it is a knell That summons thee to heaven or to hell.
To define you have to start from the begining or to know what has happened before these three lines and who says them. Macbeth is saying those lines in a soliloquy after he has decided to kill King Duncan.Next you must look up any words in a dictionary if you have to, if not skip to the next step which is try and work out the meaning line by line or word by word if you must. A word I don’t understand is “knell” and the result I got in the dictionary is the sound of a bell when rung.Now I know what the first line means ,which is ( in Macbeth’s point of view) I will go and that is final the bell invites me. The second and third line mean you can’t hear it Duncan but the sound of the bell summons you to heaven or hell.
November 23, 2015 at 9:37 pm
Hello Gary,
You can achieve the Discovery badge by identifying a specifc device and then exploring how this has been used by Shakespeare to enhance meanings within the text.
For instance, look at the description of the bell above – how might that tell us more about Macbeth’s feelings towards the act that he has committed himself to?