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'Macbeth' - key characters
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A Level English Lit. A2 ('Macbeth') Mind Map on 'Macbeth' - key characters, created by 08biasi.s on 01/04/2015.
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'Macbeth' - key characters
Macbeth
Character development.
Initially brave, noble
Comes from captain/Duncan...
First sight - honourable, since he resists evil? But still attracted by it
'without the evil', 'full o' the milk of human kindness'
Driven to insanity because of 'vaulting ambition' that 'o'erleaps itself'
'mind is full of scorpions'
Despair at end - rejection of God? Gothic
Contemplates suicide...
Edward the Confessor on the side of God
Gothic elements
Despair at end, rejection of God - context...
Butchersome qualities
sword 'smoked with bloody execution'
Hyperbole
Mind full of scorpions
Could not say Amen
Turn the seas 'incarnadine'
Supernatural
Speaks to apparitions
Dagger, ghost
Key quotations.
Lady Macbeth
Character development
Stark contrasts
Murder of Duncan - cannot do it since he looks like her 'father', yet says the sleeping/dead are just like 'pictures'
Scared by owls/crickets, yet asks to be filled with direst cruely, dash a baby's brains...
Powerful at start, yet suicidal/insane by end.
Turn the oceans red/damn'd spot
Gothic elements
lack of femininity
'unsex me'
context
violence vs. babies
YET motherly to Macbeth (milk...)
turn milk to gall
Suicidal at end, sleepwalking, insanity - striking as we actually see it
violence
Duncan
Gothic elements
irony - 'pleasant seat'
although he admires Macbeth... announces Malcolm is prince of Cumberland
Macduff
Character development
Rightly suspicious of Macbeth
Noble, patriotic (scene in England)
Context
Abandons family - but for a good cause?
Banquo
Character development.
Stands in contrast to Macbeth, since he recognises 'the instruments of darkness tell us truths'
Resists temptation.
Comments on evilness of what Macbeth will do, before he does it.
Ghost.
Reproachful...
The witches
Character development
context
not of this world
Banquo
'something wicked this way comes'
Supernatural elements
Familiars
Weather
Sterotypes - 'sieve' etc.
Vanish in thin air
Apparitions
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