Christopher Marlowe and Thomas Kyd were competitors to Shakespeare
People believed in the superntural
Shakespeare added the witches in after he had written the play
Guy Fawkes tried to kill the King (treason)
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Macbeth Themes/Motifs
Murder
Guilt
Manipulation
Prophecy/fate
Treason/Traitor
Dominance/ Superiority
Madness
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Macbeth Structure
Imagery- metaphors and similies set the play's mood. It's full of images of light and darkness which symbolise good and evil. The sun doesn't shine after duncan's murder.
Soliloquies- when characters speak to themselves, revealing their thoughts to the audience. Lady Macbeth's soliloquy in Act 1, Scene 5 reveals her desire to be utterly ruthless.
Dramatic irony- when the audience knows something that the characters don't.
Rhythm and rhyme- Shakespeare uses different rhymes and ryhthms for different characters. Most characters speak in blank verse, but the witches speak in short rhyming lines which makes them seem unusual and unnatural- it sounds like they're chanting or casting a spell.
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Macbeth Quotes
'witchcraft celebrates'
'I have done the deed'
"this is a sorry sight"
"i could not say 'amen"
"Macbeth shall sleep no more"
"wake duncan with thy knocking, i wish thou couldst"
'consider it not so deeply'
'infirm of purpose'
'my hands are of your colour, but i shame to wear a heart so white'
'what he hath lost, noble macbeth hath won'
'for us to attempt the murder and not succeed would ruin us'
'screw your courage to the sticking place'
' a little water clears us of this deed'
'what will these heands ne'er be clean'
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Macbeth Quotes
'what's done cannot be undone'
'yet here's a spot'
'yet who would have thought the old man to have so much blood in him?'
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