The mood that is put out at the beginning of a novel sets the mood for the whole novel.
The mood that is in Act 1 of Shakespeare's Macbeth is very ominous and threatening which is
shown through attributes such as setting, action, and characterization. From the moor that the
witches gather, to the deceptiveness of Macbeth, to the action on the battlefield, all of these
features are what add to the threatening mood of the first Act.
In Act 1 of Macbeth the settings are seen as threatening and ominous, such as the
wasteland where Macbeth battles, and where the witches gather to tell Macbeth their predictions.
This setting is the used for the first two scenes of the Act and are threatening because they deal
with war, witchcraft, and evil. The weather in these two scenes adds to the ominous mood. It
seems to always be wet and rainy and never sunny. "So foul and fair a day". Macbeths victory is
very bittersweet, because he has won his war, but the weather is awful and he can not celebrate. It
seems as though every scene that the witches are in, they bring with them bad weather such as
thunder, lightning, and rain, which adds to the ominous mood.
The action in the first Act helps add a lot to the ominous mood. The action of Macbeth
fighting on the battlefield is very threatening because he is very violent and brutal. The witches are
the main action in this act, because they bring evil and witchcraft to the scene. The way that they
can predict the future, and change the weather is very ominous. "And the very ports they blow, all
the quarters that they know". It seems as though every scene that the witches are in, they make
the mood very depressing and dark. Without the witches being in Act 1, the mood be a lot less
ominous and threatening.
The characters who are in Act 1 make this act very...