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  • Macbeth
    • Deceit
      • Banquo
        • "Ride you this afternoon?"
        • "Is't far you ride?"
          • planning murder
            • "Ride you this afternoon?"
        • "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"
        • "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
      • 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"
      • 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

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