MACBETH

MACBETH

1. CHARACTERS

   • MACBETH
     • increase in power
     • decrease in morality
     • decline in sanity
     • change of character
       • relationship
         • 'consider it not so deeply' LM A2
         • 'she should have died thereafter' M A5
       • attitude to friends/supporters
       • reaction to noise
       • treatment of servants
         • 'give me my sword' A2
         • 'go bid thy mistress' A2
         • 'lily-liver'd boy' A5
         • 'liar and slave' A5
         • 'devil damn the black' A5
       • doubts and fears
       • mind
         • 'dagger of the mind, false creation' A2
         • to know my deed twere best not know myself' A2
         • 'I am sick at heart' A5
       • imagery
         • 'filthy witness' A2
         • 'hangmans hands' A2
         • 'til my bones and flesh be hack'd' A5
         • 'life's but a walking shadow, dusty death' A5
       • questions/imperatives
   • LADY MACBETH
     • decline in power (over husband)
     • increase in morality?
     • decline in sanity
   • DUNCAN
   • MALCOLM
   • BANQUO
     • innocent
     • always less than Macbeth
   • MACDUFF
   • ROSS
   • 3 WITCHES
     • dictate action
     • evil sprit/forces

2. THEMES

   • ambition
   • deception
     • 'help me hence, ho' (fainting) LM after hearing about Duncan being dead
   • revenge/murder
   • betrayal/loyalty
   • supernatural
   • guilt/morality
   • insanity
     • 'out dammed spot' LM in sleep
   • power/corruption
   • fate
   • appearance vs reality
   • fate
   • courage
   • decline/degradation

3. KEY QUOTES

   • LADY MACBETH
     • pg15 A1S5
       • 'unsex me here'
       • 'stop up th'access and passage to remorse'
       • 'my keen knife see not the wound it makes'
       • 'dunnest smoke of hell'/'nor heaven peep through'
       • 'fatal entrance of Duncan'
     • pg28 A2S2 'go get some water and wash this filthy witness from your hand'
     • pg84 A5S1
       • 'out damned spot! out I say!'
       • 'hell is murkey'
       • will these hands ne'er be clean?'
       • 'what's done cannot be undone'
   • MACBETH
     • pg19 A1S7
     • pg41 A3S1
       • 'upon my head they placed a fruitless crown'
   • APPARITIONS
   • MALCOLM
     • pg100 A5S9
       • 'my thanes and kingsmen henceforth be earls'
       • 'calling home our exil'd friends abroad'
       • 'dead butcher and his fiend-like queen'