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macbeths mind
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- 1Macbeth point sentenceThrough Macbeth Shakespeare warns his audience about the dangers of ambition and the consequences of seeking power outside your position.
- 2Macbeth contextShakespeare was influenced by the great chain of being. Jacobeans believed god controlled nature in a hierarchy and that interfering with this chain was blasphemous and would have terrible consequences. men were expected to be the moral leader of the household and everyone was expected to be loyal to the king who ruled by divine right.
- 3what does Macbeth representthrough Macbeths journey from brave to deceitful Shakespeare explores how ambition corrupts even the most heroic men until they are willing to decide and destroy society as a whole. Through Macbeths fate Shakespeare warns Jacobeans about the terrible consequences of trying to rebel against your ordained position in gods gcob
- 4beginning pointat the beginning of the play Shakespeare presents Macbeth as a man of high status but one who knows ambitions go beyond his roll in the gcob
- 5beginning quotes"look how our partners rapt"
"two truths be told/ as happy prologues to a swelling act/ of imperial theme"
"false face must hide what false heart doth know" - 6middle pointin the middle of the play after killing king Duncan Macbeths mind is corrupt by guilt but still obsessed with his goal, he thinks there is no better route than more crime.
- 7middle quotes"will great Neptunes oceans wash this blood clean from my hands, no."
"oh full of scorpions my mind is dear wife"
"I am cabined cribbed confined, bound in saucy doubts and fears" - 8end pointat the end of the play Shakespeare presents Macbeth as a man whose inappropriate ambition has turned him into a villainous tyrant whose violence isolates him from society and makes him nihilistic. without order life is meaningless.
- 9end quotes"the firstlings of my heart shall be the firstlings of my hand"
"out out brief candle!life is but a walking shadow, a poor player"
"I have almost forgotten he taste of fears"
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