English - Macbeth Context
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- Macbeth Context
- Set In Scotland in the early 1600's in the reign of James I (James VI)
- At the start of the play, it is set on a heath land
- Unsettled, eerie, thunder & lightning
- Macbeth meets the 3 witches here - With his friend Banquo
- They make 3 prophecies (predictions)
- Prophecy 1: Macbeth will become the thane of Glamis
- Prophecy 2: Macbeth will become thane of Cawdor
- Prophecy 3: Macbeth will be King
- Macbeth murders the King and seizes the throne
- Witchcraft was a topic with a great deal of interest to Shakespeare
- "When shall we three meet again. in thunder, Lightning or in rain?"
- They make 3 prophecies (predictions)
- King Duncan is on the throne
- Macbeth murders the King and seizes the throne
- At the start of the play, it is set on a heath land
- The Great Chain Of Being
- Elizabethans believed that God set out an order for everything in the universe
- Disobeying the monarch was a sin because they were in charge
- If the wrong person was on throne then everything would go wrong in the country.
- Elizabethans were very superstitious
- Witchcraft was a topic with a great deal of interest to Shakespeare
- Set In Scotland in the early 1600's in the reign of James I (James VI)
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