Macbeth as a hero
- Created by: shanicecreag
- Created on: 28-01-17 12:28
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- Macbeth as a hero
- "Brave Macbeth-well he deserves that name"
- "brave"
- Noble
- warrior
- fearlessness
- warrior
- reliable
- someone we should respect
- role model
- someone we should respect
- contrasts with his fall from grace
- tragic hero
- epithet
- gives an audience a way to remember the character
- Noble
- "Deserves"
- makes audience respect him
- hard worker
- fighter
- inspires and forces us to like him
- fighter
- "brave"
- "...till he unseamed him from the nave to the chops and fixed his head upon our battlements"
- "unseamed"
- vicious
- pulled apart/ripped
- tragic hero
- strong/high in power
- "battlements"
- fear
- know Macbeth is not a person to cross
- foreshadows the ending
- fear
- "unseamed"
- "...They were as cannons overcharge'd with double cracks; so they doubly redoubled strokes upon the foe"
- metaphor - "overcharge'd"
- omnipotent
- ruthless
- brutal
- power
- ruthless
- audience gripped by war
- omnipotent
- "strokes"
- contrasts with the ruthless atmosphere
- verbal irony
- contrasts with the ruthless atmosphere
- metaphor - "overcharge'd"
- "what he hath lost, Macbeth hath won"
- pride
- victory
- strong
- victory
- heroic
- Massive contrast to the end
- makes audience believe he's a hero
- have to make audience like him at the start
- pride
- "the sin of my ingratitude even now was heavy on me...only I have left to say, more is thy due than more all can play
- against God
- guilt
- against God
- "I have begun to plant thee, and will not labour to make thee full of growing"
- thoughts being planted into Macbeth's mind
- destiny
- chain of being?
- destiny
- thoughts being planted into Macbeth's mind
- "Brave Macbeth-well he deserves that name"
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