Bravery

Bravery

1. Scene 1 Act 1

   • Valours minion
     • Personification of Valour
     • Synonms of Brave
       • 3 x in scene
   • Bellona's bridegroom
     • Godess of War
       • MB is Mars
     • God-like abilities in Battle
       • Superiour
       • Ancient Greek Mythology
         • Hero
     • Foreshadow
       • Further bloodshed & death
       • Alt Interp
   • Animal imagery
     • 'As sparrows eagles, or the hare the lion'
       • Not at all
     • King of Land and air
       • Nobility
       • Bravery

2. Typical Aristotelian model

   • Brave early in the play
   • SIngular fatal flaw
     • harmatia
     • vaulting ambition
     • Caused his undoing
       • tyrant
   • path of most tragedies in Jacobean times

3. Lady Macbeth

   • Doesn't think Macbeth is Brave
   • manipulates MB using cowidice
     • screw your courage to the sticking place
     • live like a coward
     • then you were a man
   • ironic
     • no true courage
       • killing an old man in his sleep
     • real courage
       • ignoring L MB
         • sparing Duncan

4. Final scene

   • Act 5 Scene 7
   • shadow of old bravery
     • refusal to 'yeild' to superiour foes
     • willingness to 'try to the last'
   • Reason why
     • leaves audience with reminder of beginning
       • emphasise the fall he had
         • after regicide
         • warning of the consequences of regicide
           • Divine Right of King
           • please James I
           • written year after Gunpowder