MACBETH

MACBETH

1. Sleep

2. Light VS Dark

3. Appearance vs reality

4. Ambition

   • "If chance will have me king, than chance will crown me without my stir"
     • Ambition with caution
   • Macbeths Hubris
     • "Unchecked" ambition
       • Corruption
     • Considered a dangerous quality to a contemporary audience
   • "The prince of Cumberland. That is a step I must fall down on or else o'erleap, for in my way it lies"
     • "O'erleap" - Jump over. Connotations of an obstacle to Macbeth's ambitions
   • "Thou wouldst be great, art not without ambition, but without the illness should attend it.
     • Macbeth has ambition, but is too good to act on it.
       • "I fear thou art too full of the milk of human kindness"

5. Guilt

   • "Oh full of scorpions is my mind dear wife"
     • "Scorpions" have connotations of poison and discomfort, showing Macbeths inner mental struggles and hatred

6. Religeon

   • Fate
     • "Stars, hide your fires let not light see my black and deep desires"
       • Stars = symbol of fate
     • Macbeth going against Fate

7. Masculinity

   • "When durst do it then thou a man"
   • Fill me to the crown to the toe of direst cruelty

8. Secrecy

   • * Links to

9. Manipulation