Macbeth

Macbeth

1. Quotations

   • “Supernatural soliciting” (M)
   • “Fair is foul, and foul is fair” (W)
     • "Weird women" (B)
   • “Direst cruelty” (LM)
     • “Unsex me here” (LM)
   • “Your children shall be kings.” (M)
   • “Out dammed spot” (LM)
   • “Look like the innocent flower, but be the serpent under it” (LM)
   • “Not bear the knife myself: (M)
     • "Is this a dagger which I see before me" (M)
   • Vaulting ambititon
     • " My genius" (M)
   • "Be so much more the man" (LM)
     • "When you durst do it, then you were a man" (LM)
     • "But screw your courage" (LM)
     • And live a coward
   • M is a Tyrant
     • Butcher
       • Brave
     • "Bloody minded"
     • "Coward" (LM)

2. Characters

   • Macbeth
     • Antagonist
       • Consumed by power
         • Tyrannical, violent and aggressive
           • Destroys himself due to hamartia
             • Conflics of morals
               • Duty vs. betrayal
             • Self absorbed, distant from LM
     • Vaniant, noble, brave
       • Already thane of Glamis
     • Hesitant due to his morals
   • Lady Macbeth
     • Cunning manipulative, devious
       • Convinces M to kill the king

3. Themes

   • Ambition
     • Prophecies driven by LM
   • Order vs. disorder
     • Death of Duncan upsets social order
       • In Jacobean society, the monarch was second only to got
         • His sons flea
           • Power is weakened
             • Kingdom becomes corrupt with M as king
               • Tyrant
                 • Betrays friends, murders opponents