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Macbeth themes
Flashcards do conjunto (7)
- 1Ambition- Ambition = good, too much = bad...
- Overrides morality
- Instability
- Malcolm and Macduff
- Gunpowder plot
- Hamartia - 2Loyalty and betrayal- To country, king and beliefs
- Fake VS real
- Consequences
- Betrayal of self and others
- Power - 3Kingship- Good VS bad rulers
- Manipulation of history e.g. Duncan
- Divine right, God intended?? - 4Supernatural- Good or bad? (Shaksp. shows spn. = evil)
- Powerful - fear
- Believable to them - Daemonologie
- Chaos and nature
- Visions - real or no?
- Expose negative traits - 5Reality and appearances- Manipulation and deception
- Disguise
- Fair is foul, distinction between them
- Paradoxes
- Misplaced trust - Duncan, Macbeth and prophecies
- Lady M sleepwalking - 6Fate and free will- Witches' role?
- Belief in fate and effects of this
- Fatal flaw = doomed?
- Poor player...
- Macbeth's actions VS Banquo
- Fate = predetermined, free will = how reached?? - 7Good and evil- God and Devil - desires
- Great Chain of Being
- MASC + FEM (Gender poss. theme), witches = ??
- Male synonymous with cruelty and violence
- External and internal
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- Flashcards on English terminology, created by Jacinta Haden-Newman on 26/02/2019.
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- Criado por JR HN · 26 fev 2019
- Copiado por JR HN · 30 abr 2019
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