Macbeth knows that Birnam Wood is approaching and his end is near
Decides what the central ideas are
Answer:
The use of symbols to represent ideas or qualities.
Symbolic meaning attributed to natural objects or facts.
An artistic and poetic movement or style using symbolic images and indirect suggestion to express mystical ideas, emotions, and states of mind. It originated in late 19th century France and Belgium, with important figures including Mallarmé, Maeterlinck, Verlaine, Rimbaud, and Redon.
In "<em>The Importance of Being Earnest</em>" Oscar Wild uses irony to transmit a meaning that is opposite of its real meaning, specially situational and dramatic irony.
The play is a "<em>satire</em>", a genre intended to ridicule for the purpose of entertainment and very often to expose flaws in society.
So the use of meaningless dialogues is a common practice in the genre, and the repetition of the word absurd is an example of it, provoking an incoherent situation, to criticize the Victorian society of that time by ridiculing it.
