Violence in Macbeth

Violence in Macbeth

1. "till he unseamed him form the nave to th'chaps"

   • Captain about Macbeth fighting for his King against traitor
     • could be deterministic
       • Evil Macbeth vs. Good tempted Macbeth

2. Macbeth is a "Butcher"

   • The tyrant that Macbeth has become

3. "Have plucked my nipple from his boneless gums and dashed the brains out'

   • Despite the fact that there is no physical act of violence the suggestion of killing a baby, her baby, goes against both maternal instincts and human nature

4. Murder of Macduff's wife and children

   • "He has killed me mother'

5. Macduff decapitates Macbeth

   • "enter Macduff, with Macbeth's head"
   • Circular structure, violence will continue without Macbeth
   • Warrior society breads violent acts

6. "Macbeth does murder sleep"

   • Mental violence over physical
     • Continuos impact of the destruction innocence/ of a conscious
       • Suggestion that Lady Macbeth has killed herself
         • Madness- contrast between "a little water clears us of this dead" and "out damned spot"
           • sleepwalking

7. Macbeth murdering the guards to hide his own crimes

   • "O, yet I do repent me of my fury/ That i did kill them"
   • Ambiguity of Lady M. fainting

8. The witches

   • "sleep shall neither night nor day/ hang upon his penthouse lid/ He shall live a man forbid/... Though his bark cannot be lost/ yet it shall be tempest-tossed"