Story Idea

Story Idea

1. Themes

   • Guilt and Paranoia
   • Frantic, boastful madness
   • immoral acts
   • repeated bloodshed
   • terrible atrocities
   • violence
   • Quest for power

2. Cruelty and Masculinity

   • Issues of gender
   • Manipulating
   • Questioning his manhood
   • "unsexed"
   • Goads
   • Naked aggression
   • Violence
   • Chaos
   • Witches' prophecies
   • Quees provides the brains
   • Hecate, the goddess of witchcraft
   • Misogynistic time
   • Deception

3. Kingship and Tyranny

   • "Tyrant"
   • Graces
   • Justice
   • Verity
   • Temprance
   • Stableness
   • Bounty
   • Perseverance
   • Mercy
   • Loeliness
   • King brings chaos
   • Symbolised in bad weather and supernatural events

4. Hallucinations

   • Visions and Hallucinations
   • Sleepwalks
   • Hands stained with blood
   • Supernatural signs of guils

5. Violence

   • Famously violent
   • Killings takes place off stage

6. Prophecy

   • The weird sisters
   • "No man born of woman can harm Him"
   • Pradictions
   • Ambiguous
   • Self-fullfilling
   • Interpreted as riddles

7. Symbols

   • Abstract ideas or concepts
   • Murderous journey
   • Blood comes to symbolize their guilt
   • Stained
   • One that hounds them to their graves

8. Weather

   • Thunder and Lighting
   • Terrible storms
   • Violations of the natural order
   • Reflect corruption in moral and political orders