themes

themes

1. loyalty

   • Banquo is loyal to Macbeth
   • "Thou hast it now, King, Cawdor, Glamis, all..."
   • "The service and the loyalty I owe, In doing it, pays itself. Your highness' part is to receive our duties..."
   • “For brave Macbeth--well he deserves that name... "

2. guilt and conscience

   • Lady Macbeth and Macbeth both feel guilty
   • "I am in blood Stepp'd in so far, that, should I wade no more, Returning were as tedious as go o'er."
   • "Out, damned spot! out, I say"

3. Appearance and reality

   • Seeing Banquo's ghost
   • the hospitality from lady M and Macbeth when Duncan is murdered
   • the nightmares they will have
     • lady Macbeth
     • Macebth

4. evil and supernatural

   • the witches
   • natural order put out of place
   • James 1st wrote a book about supernatural things
   • It goes back to the supernatural a few time

5. order and disorder

   • order is broken after duncans murder
   • animals showed this

6. voilence

7. ambition

   • Macbeth is ambitious
   • "vaulting ambition"
   • Lady Macbeth and witches both influence macbeth
   • "so fair"

8. what makes a king?

   • Malcom doesn't like Macbeth becoming king
   • Macbeth is too feirce