Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Macbeth themes:
Kingship
- Presented with many different images of Kings
- Duncan
- gracious fair king who rewards his 'deservers'
- Contrast with Macbeth
- Macbeth
- Kingship achieved through the cowardly
stabbing of Duncan, he disloyal murder of
the king as well as the butchering the
innocent family of Macduff
- Reflects the disruption in the Great Chain of Being
- committed the
greater crime-
sinning against God
- Most important, the king must be loyal to Scotland above his
own interests. Macbeth, by contrast, brings only chaos to
Scotland—symbolized in the bad weather and bizarre
supernatural events—and offers no real justice, only a habit of
capriciously murdering those he sees as a threat. As the
embodiment of tyranny, he must be overcome by Malcolm so
that Scotland can have a true king once more.
- 'barren' and 'fruitless'
- 'tyrant'
- Key part to the plot- because it
involves the murder of a good king, the
rise and overthrow of a wicked king
and the succession of the rightful king.
- Repeated references to
artefacts of kingship e.g
crown, sceptre and robes
- Imagery associated with it
- 'solely sovereign sway'
- 'golden round'
- royalty and grandeur of it
- Revealed through the prophecies
- 'King' repeated 18 times in Act 1 alone
- 'king hereafter'
- 'shalt get kings'
- Fuel ambition, betrayal and
treason to ignite within Macbeth
- leads him to be deceptive and
manipulative