Why are these lines in act 1 important? Macbeth. [Aside.] Glamis, and Thane of Cawdor: The greatest is behind.—Thanks for your p
ains.—Do you not hope your children shall be kings, When those that gave the Thane of Cawdor to me Promis'd no less to them? Banquo. That, trusted home, Might yet enkindle you unto the crown, Besides the Thane of Cawdor. But 'tis strange: And oftentimes to win us to our harm, The instruments of darkness tell us truths; Win us with honest trifles, to betray's In deepest consequence.—
Situational irony. The definition of situational irony is “the contrast between what a reader or character expects and what actually exists or happens.
