Character Analysis
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- Created on: 30-03-18 21:42
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- Character analysis
- Macbeth
- Both Machiavelli and Macbeth see eye-to-eye as they must always have a plan, creating opportunity in changes, and prefering to be feared than loved.
- The tragic hero of the play, many women seem to manipulate him using his fatal flaw of ambition
- So easily manipulated by women in this play, conveying a sense of lovesickness.
- Shakespeare depicts unscrupulous politicians that Machiavelli described through Macbeth's development
- Macbeth and Machiavelli's perspectives differ on the basis that Macbeth is selfish, whereas Machiavelli believes in ruthlessness for one's country.
- Shakespeare shows that ( corresponding with Machiavelli's views) this level of immorality is ineffective, through Macbeth's execution as a punishment for disrupting the order at the start of the play.
- Lady Macbeth
- Shakespeare depicts the wide belief that women could not handle power safely; hence why Lady Macbeth becomes mentally ill.
- Lady Macbeth has aligned herself with the witches, allowing darkness to take over her. Due to her subversion to the domestic sphere, she becomes an outsider to the Jacobean audience.
- *"Out, damned spot! Out: I say! *
- Lady Macbeth has aligned herself with the witches, allowing darkness to take over her. Due to her subversion to the domestic sphere, she becomes an outsider to the Jacobean audience.
- Shakespeare uses this particular character to demonstrate how Jacobeans punished powerful women
- During the witch trials, women who served no purpose were often judged.
- Lady Macbeth makes Macbeth possibly lovesick for her, shattering the Great Chain of Beings as she now dominates him. This cosmic chaos must end in the death of the protagonist.
- At the time, mental illness was demonised, and therefore Macbeth abandons her.
- *Dunnest smoke of Hell*
- *"Give me the daggers"*
- Shakespeare depicts the wide belief that women could not handle power safely; hence why Lady Macbeth becomes mentally ill.
- The Witches
- Shkespeare instantly makes it clear that the witches are the outsiders of the play.
- The trio create a sense of unsease in the audience as they speak in 'riddles' of troche, and are strange in appearance.
- Shakespeare hereby presents the Jacobean stereotype that women who rejected the domestic sphere through gaining power had to obtain a level of mascuinity in order to assert control in order to avoid insanity.
- Within post-colonial literature, the outsider was always one who spoke the mothertongue of the country, and was seen as an outsider due to their language barriers.
- Separate religions to Christianity were depicted as 'witchcraft', 'heresy' and 'black magic' in the eyes of colonisers,
- Shakespeare uses the witches to critique these ideas, as the witches are able to twist Macbeth, soon gaining utmost control of him.
- Language used to describe outsiders.. appropriation of language, counter discourse or discourse, devaluing of the native culture.
- Macduff
- By the end of the play, Macduff has stated that he wishes only to avenge the lives of his family, and no more.
- It is through Macduff that Shakespeare constructs purity and order in the play, as Macduff is the sole character who remains untainted by Macbeth's tyranny throughout the Acts.
- *"and more I beg not"*
- Macbeth
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