MACBETH REVENGE

MACBETH REVENGE

1. Revenge contrasted with justice

2. Duncan asks, if traitorous Cawdor executed (1.4.1)

   • Asking for justice

3. Macbeth's execution, Duncan guards, not justice

   • M claims to act in revenge, Duncan's murder

4. B ghost appear, seek revenge for death

   • M notes " Blood will blood" (3.4.122)

5. M summons witches, B host "Smiles" at him (4.1.123)

6. Implies his revenge completed & descendants will be kings

7. Most important is Ma vengeance

8. Murdering Ma family, M sets against himself one man, defeat him

9. Ma revenge entirely personal, promises M escaping is as likely as heaven forgiving him (4.3.233-4)

10. Patterns of revenge

    • AO1

11. Pattern by looking at blood relatives, affected by M actions

12. Mal & Don lose father to M, & Fle, sons want revenge

13. Sons of Ma & Old Seyward killed, father's seek retribution

14. "It will have blood; they blood will have blood" (3.4.122)

    • M hopes murdering Duncan can "Be all" and "End all" of matter (1.7.5), revenge not easily set aside

15. A01

    • ToC executed for treason (1.4)
    • M murders chamberlains (2.3)
    • Mal encourages Ma, seek revenge for family (4.3)

16. AO3

    • Fall of the Earl in Essex during reign of Elizabeth 1 happened 5 years before M being written.
      • Essex perceived as ambitious
        • What extent, this real life event influenced Shake?