Macbeth PicturesWilliam Shakespeare in the tragedy Macbeth uses imagery very cleverly to support other aspects of the play, particularly the theme. In this essay we examine the images, including literary critical commentary. Roger Warren comments in Shakespeare Survey 30, regarding Trervor Nunn's direction of Macbeth in Stratford-upon-Avon in 1974-75, on the opposing images used to support opposing notions of purity. and black magic: much of the approach and details have been retained, especially the clash between religious purity and black magic. Purity was embodied by Duncan, very infirm (in 1974 he was blind), dressed in white and accompanied by the music of the church organ, as opposed to the black magic of the witches, who even sang 'Double, double to the Dies Irae'. (283)LC Knights in the essay "Macbeth" explains the supporting role that images play in Macbeth's descent into darkness:Listening to the witches, it is suggested, is like eating "the mad root, which holds reason captive" (I .iii.84-5); for Macbeth, in the moment of temptation, the "function," or intellectual activity, is "choked by conjectures"; and everywhere the image of darkness suggests not only the absence or withdrawal of light but - "the light thickens" - the presence of something decidedly oppressive and impeding. (101) In Fools of Time: Studies in Shakespearean Tragedy, Northrop Frye shows how the playwright uses imagery to reinforce the theme: This theme is clearest where we are most attuned to the nemesis. Thus at the end of Macbeth, after the proclamation "time is free" and promises of redress of Macbeth's tyranny "that would be planted again in time", there will be a renewal not only of time but of the entire rhythm of nature symbolized by the word “measure,” which includes both the music of the spheres and the dispensation of human justice [. . .]. (94-95)In his book On the Design of Shakespearean Tragedy, HS Wilson interprets the imagery of Macbeth:Macbeth is a play in which poetic atmosphere is very important; so important, in fact, that some recent commentators give the impression that this atmosphere, as created by the work's images, is its defining quality. For those who pay more attention to these powerful atmospheric suggestions, this is undoubtedly true. Mr. Kenneth Muir, in his introduction to the show