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How does Shakespeare present villainy in Macbeth?
- Murder
- Order of Murders:
1st Duncan, 2nd
Banquo, 3rd
Macduff's household
- The murders become progressively more brutal:
Duncan is stabbed > Banquo is assasinated by 2
thugs > Macduff's family and household are
slaughtered.
- Increase in brutality implies macbeth's increase in villainy
- Increase in brutality implies macbeth's increase in villainy
- Macbeth becomes less and less
associated with the murders: Duncan he
kills personally > Banquo's murder was
committed by thugs > Macduff & co. are
slaughtered by Macbeth's men
- This could show increasing villainy as
Macbeth cannot be bothered to
commit them himself and therefore
the victims are indifferent to him.
- This could show increasing villainy as
Macbeth cannot be bothered to
commit them himself and therefore
the victims are indifferent to him.
- The murders become progressively more brutal:
Duncan is stabbed > Banquo is assasinated by 2
thugs > Macduff's family and household are
slaughtered.
- Lady Macbeth persuades Macbeth to
kill Duncan, she could be seen as more
villainous than Macbeth
- The presentation of the murders.
- Duncan's is off stage - this
shows respect for the king and
his dignity stays intact
- He was murdered in his sleep - couldn't
defend himslef, showing that he wasn't
weak as he wasn't beaten in a fight
- He was murdered in his sleep - couldn't
defend himslef, showing that he wasn't
weak as he wasn't beaten in a fight
- Banquo was murdered brutally on stage - this is for
entertainment purposes
- Macduff's household
and family are
brutally murdered on
stage
- This shows Macbeth's power and villainy - he
kills them to threaten Macduff, it is done
maliciously and without cause - they are
unnecessary murders - children and women are
killed
- This shows Macbeth's power and villainy - he
kills them to threaten Macduff, it is done
maliciously and without cause - they are
unnecessary murders - children and women are
killed
- Duncan's is off stage - this
shows respect for the king and
his dignity stays intact
- Order of Murders:
1st Duncan, 2nd
Banquo, 3rd
Macduff's household
- Supernatural
- Witches
- They are a
supernatural
forces
controlling fate
- The villainy is built on their
prophecies
- Macbeth commits the
murders because of the
prophecies
- Macbeth commits the
murders because of the
prophecies
- The witches
already seem to
know Macbeth,
showing that he
might already be
associated with
them, making him
villainous.
- They are a
supernatural
forces
controlling fate
- The dagger and
Ghost of Banquo
- These may not be seen as
supernatural as they are visions
that Macbeth experiences possibly
due to his guilty conscience
- Banquo's ghost haunts
Macbeth, making him
have a guilty
conscience
- The dagger which is imagined
refers to the quote: 'foul is fair
and fair is foul'. This means
that what seems right isn't
right and what seems wrong
isn't really wrong
- The vision of the dagger
could also symbolize death
hanging in the air
- The vision of the dagger
could also symbolize death
hanging in the air
- These may not be seen as
supernatural as they are visions
that Macbeth experiences possibly
due to his guilty conscience
- Language
- Descriptions of characters from mythology
- "With Tarquin's ravishing strides, towards his design"
- "With Tarquin's ravishing strides, towards his design"
- "Moves like a ghost"
- "Witchcraft celebrates"
- Descriptions of characters from mythology
- Witches
- Dramatic
Techniques
- Soliloquies
(order)
- 1st: "He's here in double trust...."
- This is Macbeth's response to the witches
- Scared and overwhelmed: "This
supernatural soliciting//Cannot be
ill, cannot be good","Whose horrid
image doth unfix my hair...".
Ambition and excitement: "Why
hath it given me earnest of
success?". Disbelief: "...stand not
within the prospect of belief".
Intrigued: "...tell me more" - his
curiosity suggest villainy.
- Scared and overwhelmed: "This
supernatural soliciting//Cannot be
ill, cannot be good","Whose horrid
image doth unfix my hair...".
Ambition and excitement: "Why
hath it given me earnest of
success?". Disbelief: "...stand not
within the prospect of belief".
Intrigued: "...tell me more" - his
curiosity suggest villainy.
- Villainy is presented through the soliloquy as it gives an insight to his thoughts.
However Macbeth doesn't seem very villainous yet but the idea of regicide is born
- This is Macbeth's response to the witches
- 2nd: "Is this a dagger which I see before me..."
- Before he kills the King (like a pep talk)
- It is a pivotal moment at which Macbeth clearly turns
villainous.
- Fearing discovery: "Thou sure and firm-set earth//hear not my
steps..., for fear//Thy very stones prate of my whereabout".
Wants to be disassociated with the deed: "wither'd
murder...moves like a ghost". Guilty (conscience driving him
crazy: "...a dagger of the mind, a false creation,//proceeding
from the heat-oppressed brain?". Ambition: "I go, and it is
done..."
- Before he kills the King (like a pep talk)
- 1st: "He's here in double trust...."
- Soliloquies
(order)
- Imagery
- Blood
- It is used to convey guilt, murder, treachery and evil
- "And on thy blade and dudgeon gouts of blood"
- This quote could also be interpreted as a
premonition of the murder Macbeth will commit
- This quote could also be interpreted as a
premonition of the murder Macbeth will commit
- "And on thy blade and dudgeon gouts of blood"
- It is used to convey guilt, murder, treachery and evil
- Weather
- Thunder and lightning announces the witches
- Premonition of villainous characters
- "When shall we three meet
again, In thunder, lightning, or
in rain"
- Premonition of villainous characters
- There are storms on the night of
Duncan's murder
- The fore-warning of villainous actions
- The fore-warning of villainous actions
- Thunder and lightning announces the witches
- Darkness
- Dark = villainy and evil
Light = good and truth
- "Stars, hide your fires, let no
light see my dark desires"
- Stars are the truth and macbeth orders them not
to shine as their light will reveal his villainous
deeds
- Stars are the truth and macbeth orders them not
to shine as their light will reveal his villainous
deeds
- "Come, thick night...nor
heaven to peep through
the blanket of the dark..."
- Darkness allows Lady
Macbeth to do evil - It
implies that deceit and
treachery can go unnoticed
and villainous acts can be
done freely
- Darkness allows Lady
Macbeth to do evil - It
implies that deceit and
treachery can go unnoticed
and villainous acts can be
done freely
- "Stars, hide your fires, let no
light see my dark desires"
- Dark = villainy and evil
Light = good and truth
- Blood
- Language & Structure
- Poetry
- Blank Verse
- Iambic Pentameter
- 10 syllables per line and stresses every other syllable
- 10 syllables per line and stresses every other syllable
- It groups characters (villains)
- The witches talk mainly in rhym,
therefore act as 1 unit of evil and
villainy
- Macbeth talks a lot in imabic pentameter
and blank verse - a form of poetry, therefore
suggesting an association with the witches
- The witches talk mainly in rhym,
therefore act as 1 unit of evil and
villainy
- Blank Verse
- The use of Macbeth's soliloquies (see Dramatic Techniques - Soliloquies)
- 5 Acts
- Act 1: Expostition, Act
2: Complitcation, Act 3:
Crisis Act, 4: Resolution,
Act 5: Denoument
- This allows the audience to experience
Macbeth's increasing villainy throughout
the whole play
- This allows the audience to experience
Macbeth's increasing villainy throughout
the whole play
- Act 1: Expostition, Act
2: Complitcation, Act 3:
Crisis Act, 4: Resolution,
Act 5: Denoument
- Poetry
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