Key Themes of Macbeth
- Created by: evemorrison
- Created on: 26-02-17 15:26
View mindmap
- Macbeth
- Appearance vs. Reality
- Lady Macbeth
- 'Look like th'innocent flower, but be the serpent beneath it'
- Adam + Eve in the garden of Eden
- 'Look like the time'
- simile; like the time
- 'Look up clear, to alter favour ever is to fear'
- 'Look like th'innocent flower, but be the serpent beneath it'
- Macbeth
- 'False face must hide what the false heart doth know'
- CONTRAST to Duncan's 'There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face'
- 'False face must hide what the false heart doth know'
- Lady Macbeth
- Ambition
- Macbeth
- 'My thought, whose murder is yet fantastical'
- adverb; 'yet' foreshadows Duncan's murder
- 'I burned in desire to question them further'
- verb; 'burned' connotations of hell
- 'Vaulting ambitions which o'erleaps itself and falls on th'other'
- foreshadows his own downdall
- 'My thought, whose murder is yet fantastical'
- Lady Macbeth
- 'What cannot you and I perform upon th'unguarded Duncan'
- 'But screw your ccourage to the sticking place, and we'll not fail'
- Macbeth
- Betrayal
- Macbeth
- 'He(Duncan) hath honour'd me of late'
- 'Stars, hide your fires, let not light see my black and deep desires'
- lexical field of darkness; connotations of evil
- 'Our duties/ Are to your throne and state, children and servants'
- irony; Macbeth will destroy all of these in his quest for power
- Macbeth
- Supernatural
- Lady Macbeth
- 'The raven himself is hoarse/That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan'
- raven associated with witchcraft; often their 'familiar'
- 'Come, you spirits, that tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here'
- imperative verb; come - demonstrates her control
- 'What, will my hands ne'er be clean'
- visions indicative of guilt
- 'The raven himself is hoarse/That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan'
- Witches
- 'Killing swine'
- Plays on public beliefs to create terror surrounding the witches
- 'Peace, the charm's wound up'
- noun; 'charm' suggests they bewitched Macbeth
- 'Fair is foul and foul is fair'
- paradox; confuses the audience + other characters
- 'Killing swine'
- Macbeth
- 'Is this a dagger which I see before me?'
- visions indicative of guilt
- 'Is this a dagger which I see before me?'
- Lady Macbeth
- Royalty
- Lady Macbeth
- 'Which shall (...) give solely sovereign sway and masterdom'
- Lady Macbeth
- Appearance vs. Reality
- AO2
- AO3
Comments
No comments have yet been made