The Creepiest word in Macbeth

Focuse on the word ‘the’ in MacB
For the more able

We can link these linguistic observations to Stephen Booth’s critical claim about indefinition in Macbeth 
Macbeth is a play which presents the new as old and the indefinite and uncertain as certain 
Paradoxically, the effect of this apparent certainty is uncertainty and dislocation to the reader: the formal structures of the language, the function of words, are telling us one thing (things are familiar, fixed and certain); but the content words are telling us something else 
A determiner tells us how to think about the specifics being mentioned

In your own exam answers, consider how ‘the’ and ‘th’ have been used when you are analysing at word level.