| For example, when Macbeth speaks to himself, “If chance will have me King, why chance may crown me without my stir”, while Banquo talks separately to soldiers. | – |
| For example, the way Banquo contrasts Macbeth in the way he responds to the prophecies, or the way Malcolm contrasts Duncan and Macbeth as a leader. | – |
| This is broken when Duncan is murdered, and it results in strange events and general disorder in the world. | – |
| We see this device, for example, in the lines, “lesser than Macbeth, and greater”. | – |
| After the murder of Duncan, an old man notes, “Thou seest the heavens, as troubled with man’s act: by the clock it is day, and yet dark night strangles the travelling lamp . . . darkness does the face of earth entomb . . . tis unnatural, even like the act that’s done”. | – |
| For example, when Macbeth concludes that his ambitions are meaningless and that life is “a poor player who struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more”. | – |
| For example, when, at the beginning of a scene, Duncan describes Macbeth’s castle, which he has just arrived at: “This castle hath a pleasant seat, the air nimbly and sweetly recommends itself unto our gentle senses”. | – |
| For example, when Macbeth says to Banquo, “If you shall cleave to my consent, when ‘tis, It shall make honour for you”, though he means something more sinister. | – |
| Macbeth’s line, “I have only vaulting ambition, which o’erleaps itself” displays this. | – |
| This was probably used for the sudden, mysteries entrances and disappearances of the witches. | – |