Macbeth- villain

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  • Macbeth- villain
    • "...give to the edge of the sword his wife his babes, and all the unfortunate souls that trace him in his time"
      • commands, dangerous,evil,hard to escape
        • no going back
        • nemesis, brutal, no one is safe
    • "stars hide your fires! Let not see my black and deep desires"
      • gods, consequences of judgement
        • power, ignoring it
      • scared someone will find out
      • beginning of a fall from grace
      • ambitious but potentially a coward
      • audience becomes involved
        • had thoughts like this before
          • hidden, secret,longing,lust
          • scared of brutal nature
            • doesn't want people to understand
    • "hang those that talk of fear"
      • Kill, murder, death, dangerous
        • weakness, alone
          • rejects the idea of being weak to cover his own weakness
            • tragic hero
        • scared, isolation, reflection
      • foreshadows macbeths later guilt and fear of people finding out his secret
        • hiding his own fear?
    • "hell hound"
      • comparison to the downfall of Lucifer
        • chain of being- sin to God
        • schaudenfraude-we want his downfall
          • peripeteia
        • inevitable-tragic hero
        • kind of zoomorphism as he's linked with dogs and wolves
    • "the very firstlings of my heart shall be the firstlings of my hand"
      • when he decides to do something he will do it immediately
      • scared to be known as a coward
      • feels as though this is what he has to do as a king
        • tyrant
    • "the tyrants people on both sides do fight"
      • ruler, corrupt,government,evil, war
      • could give the effect that Macbeth is doing nothing wrong as others would do the same

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