Macbeth

Macbeth

1. INTERESTING MOMENTS/SCENES

   • Witches meeting
   • Murders
   • Soliloquy
   • Apparitions
   • Ghost
   • Lady Macbeth (plotting)

2. LADY MACBETH

   • Manipulative
     • Questions Macbeths masculinity
   • Imagery
   • Role of a woman
     • Contextually interesting
   • Challenges Stereotypes
     • Punished with death
   • Language she uses
     • Powerful language

3. GHOST

   • Conscience of Macbeth is troubled
     • Shows they're still human
       • Audience can empathise
   • Device used to expose the evil in the play - Macbeth is not wholly evil

4. WITCHES

   • Themes
     • Supernatural
     • Good vs Evil
   • Equivocate (half-truths)
   • Language
     • Chants/rhyming, potion/spell
   • Prophesy
     • Manipulative
       • Anybody can fall prey to them
         • Context
           • Kind of warning
   • 3 - Unholy trinity
   • Selfish
     • Entertainment

5. MURDER (theme)

   • Murder of innocents
     • Shocking to audience
   • Acting against nature
   • Explores Macbeths cowardly nature
   • Duncan
     • Two guards
   • Banquo
     • Fleance escapes
       • Good can triumph over evil
   • Macduffs family
   • Theme of death
   • Blood imagery

6. APPARITIONS

   • Themes
     • Equivocation
       • Exposes Macbeths fatal flaw
         • Ambition
     • Supernatural
   • Sense of unease and fear
   • Refocus Macbeths end goal
   • Blaming evil
     • Men are not inherently evil
   • Armed head
   • Bloody child
   • Child, crowned holding tree branch
   • Mood and tone of play change
   • Macbeth is loosing his grip on reality
   • Devices used by Shakespeare
   • Dramatic device
     • Move plot forward and warn against trusting the supernatural
     • In performance
       • Scary
       • Striking