A flashback occurs in a passage when the author wants to give information from the past. It can give more detail about a character or an event that happened. It builds on traditional plot structure
The city is running out of supply, and money for electricity. We need to do something drastic before we have a problem city-wide. As the chairman, could you please talk to the city council to use part of budget. Without electricity, our factories, stores, restaurants, and businesses will fail. Causing a depression, banks wouldn't be able to communicate. Our money supply would go out. Hospitals wouldn't be resourceful anymore.
Answer:
Strictly speaking, this soliloquy depicts the struggle of a high state official who is about to commit a coup d'etat by killing his king and taking over the throne. However, it is much more than a dishonest political manoeuvre. It also presents a personal moral conflict of a man who is well aware that once he draws the dagger, there is no way back.
Explanation:
(Continued) Just like the nonfiction excerpt implies, Shakespeare here transcends the sociopolitical boundaries of his own historical moment. Macbeth's soliloquy creates huge suspense and anticipates the bloodshed that is about to unravel, much to the taste of the early 17th-century audience. But it also presents a host of timeless, universal questions. By doing that, Shakespeare gives his audience and his king exactly what they want and writes a timeless play about power, greed and ambition, treachery, and (un)happiness.
