Key Themes In MacBeth

Key Themes In MacBeth

1. Guilt

   • "We will proceed no further in this business. He hath honored me of late." -Macbeth Act 1 Scene 7
   • "I have thee not, and yet I see thee still." -Macbeth Act 2 Scene 1
   • "Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?" -Macbeth Act 2 Scene 1
   • "I dare do all that may become a man;" -Macbeth Act 1 Scene 7
   • "Bloody instructions, which, being taught, return" Macbeth Act 1 Scene 6
   • "We still have judgment here, that we but teach" -Macbeth Act 1 Scene 6
   • "Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep" -Macbeth Act 1 Scene 4

2. Betrayal

   • "If you shall cleave to my consent, when ’tis, It shall make honor for you" -Macbeth Act 2 Scene 1
   • "I am settled, and bend up Each corporal agent to this terrible feat." -Macbeth Act 1 Scene 7
   • "It were done quickly. If the assassination Could trammel up the consequence, and catch With his surcease success;" -Macbeth Act 1 Scene 6
   • "Cawdor openly confessed his treason" Malcolm Act 1 Scene 3
   • "Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep" -Macbeth Act 1 Scene 4

3. Super Natural

4. Ambitious

5. Evil

6. Naivety

7. Cruelty

8. Death