Macbeth Themes

Macbeth Themes

1. Ambition

   • power
     • downfall

2. Evil

   • destroying good
   • uses others

3. Order and Disorder

   • Struggle
     • to maintain
     • to destroy

4. Appearance versus reality

   • evil behind looks

5. Equivocation

   • telling half-truths

6. Violence and Tyranny

   • Warfare
   • Destruction
   • Opression

7. Guilt and consequence

   • Knows he is doing wrong
     • does nothing

8. Man

   • feudal society of hierarchial male power breeds