Kingship
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- Created on: 01-05-18 18:51
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- Kingship
- Others views on what a king should be
- Luxurious, avaricious, false deceitful, sudden, malicious, smacking of every sin that has a word.'
- List
- shows the anger that Malcolm and others feel about Macbeth
- Shows him rambling
- Links to the fact that Macbeth has now gone against his religion- he belongs in hell
- Adjectives
- 'Avaricious'
- means greedy for money
- usually has connotations of a negative trait for a king- he has a greed for the rewards of being king and for power
- 'decietful'
- They all believed that Macbeth was loyal and was someone they could trust however his true self has been uncovered.
- Links to the devil- he has preform the most sinful act.
- They all believed that Macbeth was loyal and was someone they could trust however his true self has been uncovered.
- Shakespeare wrote the play for James and this lists is an allusion to his book, Basilikon Doron. In the book he describes what a king should and shouldn't be
- 'Avaricious'
- List
- 'justice, verity, temperance, stableness, bounty, perseverance, mercy, lowliness, devotion, patience, courage, fortitude'
- Juxtaposition of lists
- shows the powerful characteristics of both characters.
- noun
- 'Verity'
- Duncan is truthful, which contrasts with Macbeths cunning approach to becoming king
- Links to it being a fact that Duncan is to be king as he was chosen by God to be King
- 'lowliness'
- King Duncan doesn't care about being King but cared more about his duties of being King
- He didn't show off his wealth because the quote suggests that he had a commonness about him
- 'Verity'
- Juxtaposition of lists
- Luxurious, avaricious, false deceitful, sudden, malicious, smacking of every sin that has a word.'
- Plant imagery to describe the way each of the Kings rule
- 'Though the treasure of natures germens tumble all together, even till destruction sicken'
- Metaphor
- Here Macbeth is suggesting that he doesn't care about nature and about God anymore- he wants to take his fate into his own hands and rely on the witches
- This links to anagnorisis- he had acknowledged the destruction but ignores it
- Here Macbeth is suggesting that he doesn't care about nature and about God anymore- he wants to take his fate into his own hands and rely on the witches
- violent verb and noun
- Links to the violent ways in which Macbeth rules- opposite of what a king should be
- Metaphor
- 'I have begun to plant thee and will labour to make thee full of growing'
- metaphor
- shows the hope and aspirations he has for Macbeth and Banquo and he has had these hopes since he was a child
- verb
- 'labour'
- to show how hard working the king is as we would usually connotate a king to wanting to help others
- A king isn't usually talking about himself doing this kind of work as they usually have servants to do it- shows his hard work
- 'labour'
- metaphor
- 'On Tuesday last, a falcon towering in her pride of place, was by a mousing owl hawked at and killed'
- Imagery
- The falcon (Duncan) was unseated and killed by the owl (Macbeth)
- the owl at the time would have had connotations of darker imagery spewing from Norse legends
- mimics Macbeths soaring ambition breaking the natural divine law of the monarchy by Killing Duncan
- links to how the play is a national tragedy- Macbeths actions has resulted in the food chain being disrupted.
- The falcon (Duncan) was unseated and killed by the owl (Macbeth)
- Imagery
- 'Though the treasure of natures germens tumble all together, even till destruction sicken'
- hell and heaven imagery
- 'Come thick night and pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell, that my keen knife not see the wounds it makes'
- dark imagery
- the dark imagery here is analogous to the evil of what she's saying
- irony
- In Act 1 she calls for darkness, whereas later, in Act 5 she cannot be without a candle or light
- this links to the idea of once Macbeth has become king there will be no hope
- In Act 1 she calls for darkness, whereas later, in Act 5 she cannot be without a candle or light
- Adjective
- 'dunnest
- Connotates to the darkest and dimmest place of hell
- this links to the amount of evil the Macbeth's rule with and the amount of evil they used to get to being on the throne
- Connotates to the darkest and dimmest place of hell
- 'dunnest
- imperative verb
- mirrors the demanding way in which the Macbeths will rule
- shows the forced way they got to the throne
- mirrors the demanding way in which the Macbeths will rule
- dark imagery
- 'silver skinned laced with golden blood'
- Imagery
- used to show the contrast between the dark blood and his light skin, makes the death even more horrendous to visualise for the audience
- This paints Duncans body as almost treasure because instead of bleeing blood he bled gold. This shows the power of the monarchy
- This shows how the person who has spilt the blood will have to pay a great price for it
- Imagery
- 'Come thick night and pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell, that my keen knife not see the wounds it makes'
- Others views on what a king should be
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