Themes in Macbeth
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- Created on: 13-06-19 19:42
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- Themes
- Supernatural
- Good & Evil
- Macbeth
- Good
- brave
- ambitious
- Good
- Macbeth
- Reality & Appearance
- Fate & Freewill
- Fate: everything is already decided
- Freewill: people can choose their own future
- Macbeth
- At the beginning, he hopes fate will make him king
- 'Chance may crown without my stir'
- is not controlled by fate; he decided to kill Duncan
- 'my thought, whose murder is yet but fantastical'
- Monologue
- life is pointless; fate is real
- 'Out, out brief candle life's a walking shadow'
- life is pointless; fate is real
- At the beginning, he hopes fate will make him king
- Kingship
- Duncan
- polite to hostess/ Lady Macbeth
- Rewards Macbeth's bravery with Cawdor
- Malcolm
- loving
- 'I'll spend (more sorrow) for him
- loyal to Scotland
- 'I am truly (...) my country's to command
- brave
- fights Macbeth
- wise
- 'modest wisdom plucks me from over credulous hate
- true heir
- 'the prince of cumberland'
- loving
- Macbeth
- brave
- 'like valour's minion
- secretive
- keep secrets for personal gain
- out of place
- not rightful hier
- against divine right of kings
- selfish
- does nothing for country
- kills subjects for personal gain
- brave
- Duncan
- Ambition
- Lady Macbeth
- Ambition to be powerful and therefore a man
- 'unsex me here'
- imperative
- 'take my milk for gall'
- imperative
- 'unsex me here'
- Ambition for Macbeth
- 'too full of the milk of human kindness
- metaphor
- 'too full of the milk of human kindness
- Ambition to be powerful and therefore a man
- Banquo
- Wants his kids to be king like prophecy
- 'Thou shalt get kings'
- Wants his kids to be king like prophecy
- Macbeth
- His fatal flaw; leads to his downfall
- 'yet I will try to the last'
- conflicts with his ambition
- 'no spur to ***** the sides of my intent but vaulting ambition'
- metaphor
- 'no spur to ***** the sides of my intent but vaulting ambition'
- His fatal flaw; leads to his downfall
- Malcolm
- Wants to save Scotland
- 'We are coming thither'
- Wants to save Scotland
- Lady Macbeth
- Loyalty
- Cyclical Structure
- Play begins and ends with a traitor
- Macduff
- loyal to Scotland, then to family
- 'Child of integrity'
- metphor
- 'Child of integrity'
- loyal to Scotland, then to family
- Banquo
- 'allegiance clear'
- Disloyalty
- unnatural
- to Duncan
- divine right of kings
- would have shocked Shake-spearean audience
- Cyclical Structure
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