Macbeth

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  • Macbeth
    • Tragic Hero of the play
    • Ambition
      • Lead to Duncan's Murder
        • In order to take the throne himself
          • However Malcolm was named heir to the throne.
            • "That is a step On which I must fall down, or else o'er leap. For n my way it lies. Stars, hide your fires! Let not light see my black and deep desires."
              • Macbeth believes that his role is now to be king, and he would remove any 'step' that is in his way. He wants the "stars, hide your fires!" as his "deep desires" want him to remove (by murder) any obstacle in the path of his succes to power.
        • His ambition took over his kindness. He debated with himself as he was deeply conflicted weather he should murder Duncan
          • "First as I am his kinsman and his subject, strong both against the deed; then as his host. Who should against his murdererer shut the door, not bear the knife myself"
          • " I have no spur to ***** the sides of my intent, but only vaulting ambition, which o'er leaps itself and falls on the other"
        • Aftermath of the murder
          • "I am afraid to think what I have done"
          • "Macbeth does murder sleep"
            • Metaphor, foreshadowing
          • "WIl all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood Clean from my hand?"
            • He still feels as though the blood of King Duncan is on hands, as though the murder will never leave him.
          • He felt as though his future title was unsecure and threatned by Banquos awarness of the prophiesy for him to be king.
            • "To be thus is nothing But to be safley thus."
            • "For Banquos issue i fill'd my mind"
            • "Upon my head they plac'd a fruitless crown, And put a barren sceptre in my gripe"
              • Oxymouronus phrase
      • Deeply affected by remorse
        • More dminant and eager to secure a title in Scotland whatever the title.
          • "In the affliction of these terrible dreams that shake us nightly"
          • "O full of scorpions in my mind"
          • "Be innocent of the knowledge dearest chuck"
    • Brave and noble at the beginning
      • "For brave Macbeth-well he deserves that name"
      • Warrior
    • Reactions to the witches prophecies
      • "The Thane of Cawdor lives: why do you dress me in borrow'd robes"
        • Doesn't understand the witches prophecies at first as he believes the Thane of Cawdor 'Lives'.
      • "If chance may have me king, why, chance may crown me. Without my stir"
        • Macbeths ambitous tendences have kicked in, he believes that if there prophices should be true he should become king without hesetation-  'my stir'
      • New phrophices/ Reassured but acts rashly
        • "Something wicked this way comes"
          • Witches referrring to the Macbeths evil which is to come.
        • "Then live Macduff:what need I fear of thee? But yet i'll make assurance souble sure Thou shalt not live"
    • Hallucinations
      • Hallucinations of the dagger caused by guilt .
        • " 'art thou but a dagger of the mind; a false creation, Procceding from the heat-oppresed brain"
        • "It is the bloody buisness which informs Thus to mine eyes."
      • Hallucinations of Banquos ghost / Breaking mentally
        • "Thou canst not say I did it:never shake thy glory locks at me"
        • "Be innocent of Knowledge, dearest chuck"
    • Consequences of Macbeths sselfish rule/ lack of self restraint
      • "This tyrant, whose sole name blisters our tounges"
      • "Not in the legions of horrid hell can come a devil more damn'd in evils to top Macbeth"
      • "fiend of Scotland"
    • Weariness of life
      • "I have lived long enough"
      • "I'll fight till from my bones may my flesh be hack'd"
      • "Out, out, brief candle! Lifes but a walking shadow, a poor player That struts and frets his hour upon the stage, And then is heard no more; it is a tale told by an idiot full  of sound and fury, signifying nothing"

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