Macbeth
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- Created on: 09-05-19 14:18
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- Macbeth
- Characters
- Lady Macbeth
- end
- "Out, damned spot! out, I say"
- The murder still troubles her
- She cannot get rid of the guilt
- The murder still troubles her
- "Out, damned spot! out, I say"
- start
- "unsex me here"
- Does not like being a a woman as she is seem as weak
- "Look like the innocent flower, but be the serpent under't"
- "unsex me here"
- end
- Macbeth
- Start
- "If chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me"
- At first wants fate to decide if a becomes king
- "Stars, hide your fires! Let not black hide my black and deep desires"
- Trying to hide what he wants
- "If chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me"
- end
- "I have supp'd full with horrors; direness, familiar to my slaughterous thoughts cannot once start me"
- I have seen and done such terrible things that I am not afraid of anything
- Life's 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 talk told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
- life is meaningless
- We are insignificant even though we think we are not
- Does not know the meaning of life any more
- Given up
- "I have supp'd full with horrors; direness, familiar to my slaughterous thoughts cannot once start me"
- Start
- Banquo
- "If you can look into the seeds of time, And say which grain will grow, and which will not, speak"
- If you can see the future and what happens tell us
- Eager to know what happens
- If you can see the future and what happens tell us
- "If you can look into the seeds of time, And say which grain will grow, and which will not, speak"
- The Witches
- "Foul is fair, and fair is foul"
- Nothing is what it seems
- "Double, double toil and trouble;Fire burn and cauldron bubble"
- Making a spell
- Supernatural
- Making a spell
- "Foul is fair, and fair is foul"
- Angus
- Those he commands move only on command, Nothing in love: now does he feel his title hand loose about him, like a giant's robe upon a dwarfish thief"
- His soldiers do not believe in what they are fighting for, and his position is more than he can handle
- Those he commands move only on command, Nothing in love: now does he feel his title hand loose about him, like a giant's robe upon a dwarfish thief"
- Malcolm
- "Show an unfelt sorrow is an office which the false man does easy"
- Lady Macbeth
- Themes
- Ambition
- Lady Macbeth has a lot of ambition for her to become queen at the beginning of the play
- Fate and Freewill
- Did the witches cause everything? Or was it fate?
- Macbeth
- Macduff killed Macbeth
- Macbeth killed Duncan
- Became king
- Banquo
- He was murdered
- Many generations of his children will be king
- Macbeth
- Did the witches cause everything? Or was it fate?
- Supernatural
- The Great Chain of Being
- Macbeth breaks the great chain of Being
- Becomes king when he is not meant to
- Kills the king
- Supernatural things occur
- It keeps order in the universe
- Macbeth breaks the great chain of Being
- Witches
- They open the play
- Helps to capture the audiences attention
- They open the play
- The Great Chain of Being
- loyalty and Betrayal
- Duncan
- Trusts the wrong people
- Macbeth
- Doesn't trust anyone
- Malcolm
- Careful about who he trusts
- Duncan
- Ambition
- Context
- Shakespeare
- English Playwright
- Important issues at the time
- Loyalty and treason
- play focused on murder of a king
- At the time there had been many plots against James 1
- The Gunpowder Plot
- Supernatural
- Witches predictions encouraged Macbeth to murder king
- witches
- believed to be real and dangerous
- hundreds of people were executed for witch craft
- The Royal Line
- Macbeth worries that his children won't be kings
- Stuarts
- Uncertainty about royal succession was common
- James 1 was the first of a new royal family
- Loyalty and treason
- Shakespeare
- Characters
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