Macbeth_Macbeth
- Created by: samuelb2301
- Created on: 11-04-17 14:30
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- Macbeth
- Deceit
- Banquo
- "Ride you this afternoon?"
- "Is't far you ride?"
- planning murder
- "Ride you this afternoon?"
- planning murder
- "The instruments of darkness tell us truths, win us with honest trifles, to betray us in deepest consequence"
- "What! Can the devil speak true?"
- "I fear thou playedst most foully for't"
- Lady Macbeth
- "Look like the innocent flower but be the serpent under 't"
- supernatural
- Interest King James I
- "Is this a dagger which I see before me, the handle toward my hand? Come let me clutch thee. - I have thee not - and yet I see thee still"
- witches control Macbeth to kill Duncan
- witches power of demonic possession
- Interest King James I
- After the gunpowder plot on the 5th November 1605, James' escape was commemorated with a medal showing a snake underneath flowers
- "Look like the innocent flower but be the serpent under 't"
- witches power of demonic possession
- "rapt"
- witches power of demonic possession
- After the gunpowder plot on the 5th November 1605, James' escape was commemorated with a medal showing a snake underneath flowers
- After the gunpowder plot on the 5th November 1605, James' escape was commemorated with a medal showing a snake underneath flowers
- witches power of demonic possession
- Banquo
- Development
- starts off as a great warrior
- "who's horrid image doth unfix my hair"
- "Till he unseamed him from the nave to the chops"
- "O valiant cousin! Worthy gentleman!"
- even the though of murder disturbs him
- "My thought, who's murder yet is but fantastical, shakes so my single state of man"
- "If chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me, without stir"
- "You are too full of the milk of human kindness to strike aggressively at your first opportunity"
- cannot bring himself to do it even after Lady Macbeth persuades him
- "First, as I am his kinsman and his subject - then, as his host"
- "We will proceed no further in this business"
- witches involvement --> demonic possession
- "rapt"
- "a dagger of the mind"
- "O, full of scorpions is my mind"
- "'Amen' stuck in my throat"
- becomes a murderer
- "I have done the deed"
- "Is't far you ride?"
- hires murderers to kill Banquo
- "Know Banquo was your enemy"
- used to be friends --> "let us speak our free hearts togethor"
- goes back to the witches
- "The castle of Macduff I will surprise: Seize upon Fife - give to the edge o' the sword his wife, his babes, and all unfortunate souls that trace him in his line"
- begins having visions
- "Which of you have done this?"
- acceptance of futility of his actions
- "She should have died herafter: There would have been a time for such a word. - Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow"
- "Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more. I is a tale, told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing"
- starts off as a great warrior
- Connection with the Audience
- murderer yet the audience still connects with him
- the audience feel pitiful of Macbeth
- Macduff is too perfect to be relatable
- in a way, the audience don't blame Macbeth for his circumstance
- Deceit
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