Macbeth Exam

Macbeth Exam

1. Banquo

   • Friends with Macbeth
     • Both similar and friends until the prophecy
       • shows the contrasing possible paths and ideas
   • contrasts Macbeth's character
     • selfless
     • lets fate take it's own course
     • Level-headed
     • Loyal
     • character creeated to contrast - Macbeth - a foil of Macbeth
   • Gost of Banquo - Macbeth's Concious
   • Lesser than Macbeth, and greater
     • less powerful but a greater man
     • still has an emotional concious
     • Makes the good concious

2. Fate

   • development of events
   • Everything in play is linked by fate
     • 'All hail macbeth who shall be king here after' - Witches
   • Directly linked with Macbeth and witches
   • 'If chance will have me king, why chance may crown me without my stir' - Macbeth
     • Macbeth goes against what he says here as he does take action
     • 'May' comunicates the uncertainty of fate
     • Ironic chance is repeated twice,
       • Chance is personified
     • Supressing his ambition
   • All hail Macbeth who shall be king here after

3. Friendship

   • Honesty + Trust
     • Can only have betrayal with friendship
   • Betrayal Breaks the link between Banquo and Macbeth
     • Banquo innocent
     • Macbeth Responsible
   • The wierd sisters hand in hand
   • 'My Noble Partner' - Macbeth
   • The service and loyalty I owe - Macbeth
     • King Duncan and Macbeht
       • Duncan promotes his title
   • Betrayals
     • Witches - Macbeth
       • Macduff - Macbeth -
       • Macbeth - Duncan
       • Macbeth - Scotland
       • Macbeth - Macbeth

4. Lady Macbeth

   • Begining - stronger than Macbeth
     • Thus thou must do
   • quote when she says hand me daggers
     • stronger than Macbeth
   • Shakespeare's Audience
     • Finds it un-natural
   • 'Leave all the rest to me'
     • reveals her greed for ambitions
     • despite Macbeth becoming king
       • she wants to do stuff her way
   • Masculinity
     • 'Unsex me here'
     • 'My keen knife see not the wound it makes'
       • dont have concious over the deed her knife does
         • Less prone to emotion and feeling
     • Make thick my blood