Duty and Betrayal
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- Duty and Betrayal
- duty as moral obligation
- through character's loyalty to the King
- Macbeth
- pretence of duty
- "the service and the loyalty I owe, / in doing it pays itself." MACBETH
- dramatic irony
- audience knows his true thoughts
- makes the dutiful abstract nouns sound particularly fake
- dramatic irony
- "the service and the loyalty I owe, / in doing it pays itself." MACBETH
- becomes King
- characters are expected to show the same duty to him
- Banquo changes how he addresses his old friend
- pledges his allegiance
- "let your highness / command upon me, to which my duties / are with a most indissoluble tie / for ever knit" BANQUO
- metaphor
- "let your highness / command upon me, to which my duties / are with a most indissoluble tie / for ever knit" BANQUO
- pledges his allegiance
- Banquo changes how he addresses his old friend
- characters are expected to show the same duty to him
- pretence of duty
- Macbeth, Banquo and Ross fighting against invaders in beginning
- Macbeth
- Malcolm
- responsibility of being a son
- through character's loyalty to the King
- rewards of duty
- King Duncan
- rewards Macbeth
- naming him Thane of Cawdor
- makes Malcolm Prince of Cumberland
- promises honours for his other subjects
- "signs of nobleness, like stars, shall shine / on all deservers." KING DUNCAN
- rewards Macbeth
- Malcolm
- announcing that all loyal Thanes will be made Earls
- King Duncan
- betrayal
- Macbeth
- repeatedly linked to damnation and disruption of nature
- spiritual consequences of betrayal
- debates duty and betrayal in soliloquy in act 1 scene 7
- guiltily reminds himself that Duncan has shown "double trust"
- Macbeth is his host and relative
- kills the king
- "to know my deed, 'twere best not know myself" MACBETH
- realises that his betrayal has made him a different, shameful person
- "to know my deed, 'twere best not know myself" MACBETH
- guiltily reminds himself that Duncan has shown "double trust"
- "false thanes" leave him
- Macbeth sees it as a betrayal
- doing their duty to their country and to the rightful king
- receives similar death and loss of respect as Macdonwald and Thane of Cawdor for betraying his King and country
- repeatedly linked to damnation and disruption of nature
- first characters linked
- Macdonwald
- Macbeth cuts open and decapitates
- original Thane of Cawdor
- executed
- loss of honour
- "the slave" "disloyal traitor"
- noun phrases
- "the slave" "disloyal traitor"
- Macdonwald
- Macbeth
- duty as moral obligation
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