Macbeth Key ideas
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- Created on: 21-05-17 16:31
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- Macbeth
- Killing the King
- Regicide (which mean killing a King)
- This is an example of euphemism - an indirect word substituted for one comcidered to be too harsh or unpleasant
- could show that Macbeth is afraid or the truth/ consequence
- The first signs of macbeths tortured/ fragmented mind
- could show that Macbeth is afraid or the truth/ consequence
- This is an example of euphemism - an indirect word substituted for one comcidered to be too harsh or unpleasant
- 'Dagger of the mind'
- Soliloquy
- The first signs of macbeths tortured/ fragmented mind
- Regicide (which mean killing a King)
- Banquo
- Proof that the witches prophecies can be resisted. Doesn't tempt fate
- Link to witches and supernatural
- Proof that the witches prophecies can be resisted. Doesn't tempt fate
- Lady Macbeth
- Emasculates Macbeth
- clevery manipulates Macbeth to get what she wants
- 'are you a man?'
- Power
- shocking to a Jacobean audience but less shocking to modern day contemporaryaudiences
- Patriarchal society
- 'Unisex me here'
- Wants to be rid of her feminine qualities which make her seem weak or fragile
- shocking to a Jacobean audience but less shocking to modern day contemporaryaudiences
- Patriarchal society
- shocking to a Jacobean audience but less shocking to modern day contemporaryaudiences
- Wants to be rid of her feminine qualities which make her seem weak or fragile
- Her impurities motivate Macbeth
- Emasculates Macbeth
- clevery manipulates Macbeth to get what she wants
- 'are you a man?'
- 'Look like the innocent flower, but be the serpent underneath'
- Biblical reference to garden of Eden when devil is portrayed as a snake
- implying Macbeth should be the devil - temptations
- Dramatic irony - as Macbeth is continually refered to by connotations of the devil
- 'Look like the innocent flower, but be the serpent underneath'
- Biblical reference to garden of Eden when devil is portrayed as a snake
- implying Macbeth should be the devil - temptations
- Dramatic irony - as Macbeth is continually refered to by connotations of the devil
- 'Devilish macbeth'
- Dramatic irony - as Macbeth is continually refered to by connotations of the devil
- 'Devilish macbeth'
- 'Look like the innocent flower, but be the serpent underneath'
- Dramatic irony - as Macbeth is continually refered to by connotations of the devil
- Emasculates Macbeth
- shocking to a Jacobean audience but less shocking to modern day contemporaryaudiences
- Emasculates Macbeth
- Killing the King
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