Religion and the Supernatural
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- Created on: 10-11-18 14:53
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- Religion and the Supernatural
- religion
- good characters
- part of the Great Chain of Being or seek to maintain it
- Young Siward
- dies fighting for Malcolm
- "God's soldier" SIWARD
- dies fighting for Malcolm
- Young Siward
- King Duncan
- murdered
- "the great doom's image!" MALCOM
- references Christian idea of the Last Judgement (Doomsday)
- God will glorify the good and punish the evil
- King's religious significance as God's chosen ruler
- God will glorify the good and punish the evil
- references Christian idea of the Last Judgement (Doomsday)
- "the great doom's image!" MALCOM
- murdered
- Malcolm
- Macduff
- part of the Great Chain of Being or seek to maintain it
- good characters
- supernatural
- bad characters
- witches
- corrupting influence on nature and humankind
- "infected be the air whereon they ride; / and damn'd all those that trust them!" MACBETH
- disease that draws people towards Hell
- "infected be the air whereon they ride; / and damn'd all those that trust them!" MACBETH
- corrupting influence on nature and humankind
- Lady Macbeth
- prays to the supernatural
- "come to my woman's breasts, / and take my milk for gall, you murth'ring ministers." LADY MACBETH
- excess gall was believed to create anger and aggression in the Four Humours
- emphasises the idea of the supernatural as violent, abnormal and destroyer of innocence
- excess gall was believed to create anger and aggression in the Four Humours
- "come to my woman's breasts, / and take my milk for gall, you murth'ring ministers." LADY MACBETH
- prays to the supernatural
- Macbeth
- torn between religion and supernatural in first half
- battles with conscience over killing the king
- wants to pray after murder but can't
- being referred to as evil by act 4
- "devilish"
- "cursed"
- battles with conscience over killing the king
- torn between religion and supernatural in first half
- witches
- bad characters
- presented as contrasts
- religion linked to goodness and equilibrium
- supernatural linked to evil and chaos
- juxtaposition of images
- religion
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