Macbeth evidence

Macbeth evidence

1. Good v Evil

   • Duncan/Macbeth
     • Duncan/LMB
       • Macbeth/LMB
         • Is LMB more evil than Macbeth?
   • "Fill me from the crown to the toe, top-fill with direst cruelty" - LMB
   • "Screw your courage to the sticking place" - LMB
     • "Are you a man?" - LMB

2. Fate v Free will

   • Reversal of values
   • "Is this a dagger I see before me, the handle toward my hand?" - Macbeth
   • Were the prophecies decided by fate or were they predictions of Macbeths actions via free will?
   • The death of Macbeth, his fate or his fault?

3. Chain of being

   • Disrupts the natural order when the chain is broken
   • Pathetic fallacy
     • When Macbeth kills Duncan, supernatural things happened in the town
       • Horses eat eachother

4. Vaulting ambition

   • "If chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me" - Macbeth
   • "I dare do all that my become a man; who dares do more, is none" - Macbeth
   • Undecided whether it was Macbeths ambition or LMB persuading him to do the things he did
   • SOLILOQUY - Shows true ambitions and goals
     • Also shows how truly evil MB and LMB are

5. Appearances often hide reality

   • "Fair is foul, and foul is fair" - The witches
   • "Theres no art to find the minds constrution in the face" - King Duncan
   • "Stars, hide your fires! Let not light see my black and deep desires" - Macbeth
   • "Look like the innocent flower, but be the serpent under't" - LMB
   • Not everything is as it seems
     • Don't judge a book by its cover
   • EQUIVOCATION - Using words to deliberatly mislead
     • Macbeth and LMB