Macbeth

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  • Created on: 25-01-18 13:46

Themes

Power

Guilt/Paranoia

Deception 

Good and Evil

Supernatural

Gender Stereotypes

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Power/ ambition

Macbeth - 'Black and deep desires'

               - 'I'll fight till from my bones my flesh be hack'd'

               - 'Lay on, Macduff, and damn'd be him that first cries'

Lady Macbeth - 'But screw your courage to the sticking place/ And we'll not fail'

Banquo - 'What, can the devil speak true'

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Deception

Macbeth - 'False face must hide what the false heart doth know.'

Banquo - 'Thou hast it now: King, Cawdor, Glamis, all, as the weird              woman promised, and i fear thou play'dst most foully for it'

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Guilt/paranoia

Macbeth - 'Is this a dagger which i see before m, / The handle toward my hand?'

               - 'How is't with me, when every noise appals me'

               - 'Methought I heard a voice cry, 'Sleep no more! Macbeth does   murder sleep!'

               - 'It will have blood they say: blood will have blood.'

Lady Macbeth - 'Nought's had all's spent, where our desire is got without  content'

                       - 'Out damned spot! Out, I say!' 

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Good versus Evil

Macbeth - 'So fair and foul a day I have not seen'

               - 'I am in blood / Stepped in so far that should I wade no more.'

The Witches - 'Fair is foul and foul is Fair'

                     - 'Something wicked this way comes'

                     - 'None of woman born shall harm Macbeth'

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Supernatural

Macbeth - 'And with thy bloody and invisible hand cancel and tear to pieces that great bond which keeps me pale!'

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Gender Stereotypes

Lady Macbeth - 'Yet do I fear thy nature'

                        - 'It is too full o'th'milk of human kindness'

                        - 'To catch the nearest way'

                        - 'Leave all the rest to me'

                        - 'Come, you spirits / That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here'

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