MACBETH

MACBETH

1. VIOLENCE

   • "I am in blood, stepp'd so far that I should wade no more

2. Kingship

   • Sociotey romantiscises violence
     • "brave Macbeth"
     • "Unseam'd him from the naves to the chops"
       • enjoys killing
   • He was a gentlemen on whom I had built an absolute trust
     • Duncans flaw is his excessive trust but he is a good king
       • Malcom tests macduff
         • Macbeth will seem as pure as snow
         • Malcom would be a good king
           • supporting monarchy but disproves of peotential political violence
             • Duncan and Malcom as true kings because they don't lead with violence
       • overreliance on his thanes
       • "I have begun to plant thee"
   • Fistlings of my heart will be the firstlings of my hand
     • Macbeth is too impulsive as a king
       • "Tis unnatural"
   • Porter scene: foreshadowing of Macbeth as a king
   • Macbeth is unrightfu and a tyrant of a king

3. SUPERNATURAL

   • Fate
     • "What's done cannot be undone"
       • Carrying out fate --> Cannot control it
   • "It will have Blood, they say, blood will have blood"
     • Transgression of christianity, not naming the devil,
       • "Come spirits that tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here"
   • "Will all of Neptunes oceans clean the blood from my hand"
     • Punishment
       • "Out, damned spot I say"
       • CHRISTIANITY
         • GREAT CHAIN OF BEING
           • King James I
           • "A poor player that struts and frets his time on stage"
             • "A tale told by an idiot"..."signifying nothing"
           • "The earth was feverous"
         • "Why could I not say "Amen"
       • "Hell is muky"
       • "Lighted fools to a dusty death"
     • No Jesus
       • "Hail Hecate"
   • "Stars, hide your fires, net not light see my black and deep desires"
   • "By the pricking of my thumb, something wicked this way comes"
     • Macbeth is now so corrupt it can be sensed supernaturally
   • "Is that a dagger I see before me?"
     • temptation to kill and the supernatural encouraging it
   • WITCHES
     • Fair is foul and foul is fair
       • Agents of chaos
   • THE SUPERNATURAL AS DANGEROUS, CORRUPTING AND IMMORAL

4. AMBITION

   • I have no spur to prick the sides of my intent, but only vaulting ambition which o'er leaps itself
     • Macbeths respect for lady Macbeth
   • Macbeth is Ambitious, but too loyal and honourable to act on his impulses without supernatural help
     • "Chance may crown me without my stir"
     • "Thou art with ambition, but without the illness that should attend to it
   • AMBITION AS DESTRUCTIVE IF UNCONTROLLED

5. Patriachy

   • "Look like the innocent flower but be the serpent under't"
   • "False face must conceal what the false heart doth know"
   • "Unsex me here"
   • Lady Macbeth as 4th witch as she manipulates Macbeth and subverts traditional roles
   • "If dou durst do it then thou shall be a man"
     • Lady Macbeth putting down Macbeths masculinity because he doesn't go through with it
   • "I fear thou is too full of the milk of human kindness"
   • "I dare do all of that and may become a man"
     • His responsibility to protect Duncan
   • "We will proceed no more further in this business"
     • Macbeth asserting control
   • PATRIACHY AS HAVING NEGATIVELY AFFECTED MACBETH AND HOW TWISTED VIEWS ON VIOLENCE CAN LEAD TO CONSEQUENCES

6. Guilt

   • Hallucinations
   • Hell
   • "Stars, hide your fires, let no light see my black and deep desires
   • "Macbeth doth murder sleep"
   • "Banquos ghost as a punishment
   • Guilt as making the audience both fear but pity macbeth
   • FORM OF PUNISHMENT