Macbeth

Macbeth

1. Quotes

   • "Supernatural Soliciting" (M)
   • "Your children shall be kings" (M)
   • "Not bear the knife myself" (M)
   • "Vaulting ambition" (M)
   • "My genius" (M)
   • "Fair is foul, and foul is fair" (W)
   • "Weird women" (B)
   • "tyrant"
   • "Out damned spot" (LM)
   • "Unsex me here" (LM)

2. Themes

   • Order Vs. Disorder
     • Death of Duncan upsets social order
       • In Jacobean society, the monarch was second to God
         • His sons flee
           • Power is weakened
         • Nature becomes chaotic
           • Darkness during the day
           • Horses eat eachother
           • Owls and ravens screech

3. Characters

   • Macbeth
     • Hesitant due to his morals
       • Brooding, Thinking: should he kill the king.
         • Hallucinates about the dagger
     • Antagonist
       • Consumed by power
         • Violent, aggressive and tyrannical
           • Destroys himself due to hamartia
             • Conflict of morals
             • Destroys relationship with LM
     • Valiant, noble, brave
       • Already Thane of Glamis
         • Reinforces his power and beliefs, once the witches speak
   • Lady Macbeth
     • Cunning, manipulative, devious
       • Convinces M to kill the king
       • Plants the daggers on the guards
     • Doubts herself, becomes paranoid