Themes and context - Macbeth
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- Created on: 05-04-18 11:31
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- Themes and Context
- Ambition
- Main Theme of Macbeth
- Motivates him to commit terrible deeds.
- ambition is dangerous - out of control.
- makes people ruthless and selfish.
- Macbeth's biggest weakness.
- fatal flaw.
- Macbeth didn't want to kill Duncan = moral.
- At the end of the play he has lost everything and dies.
- Can be good or bad.
- Desires to help others.
- Malcolm and Macduff are ambitious for their country.
- Banquo is ambitious for his son's once he has heard the prophecies.
- He is not violent like Macbeth.
- Lady Macbeth thinks Macbth is not ruthless enough.
- Main Theme of Macbeth
- Loyalty and Betrayal.
- Characters show loyalty through their actions.
- Macduff is loyal to Scotland.
- The thanes are loyal to Duncan.
- Banquo doesn't let the prophecies affect him.
- Loyalty = rewarded. Betrayal = punished.
- Duncan has the previous thane of Cawdor executed.
- Circular structure - Macbth is killed in the ned.
- Macbteth betrays his own sense of right and wrong.
- Macduff's loyalty to Scotland leads I'm to betray is family.
- Duncan has the previous thane of Cawdor executed.
- Macbeth pretends to be loyal.
- puts his desires ahead of his loyalty to the king.
- Lady Macbeth fakes appearance.
- Juxtaposition - Lady Macbeth is plotting to kill Duncan but still welcomes him to their castle.
- Lady Macbeth has a lust for power.
- Characters show loyalty through their actions.
- Reality and Appearance.
- Appearance can be deceptive.
- Equivocator.
- Lady Macbeth encourages Macbeth to appear good.
- Meanings of words are unclear.
- Witches use language to trick Macbeth.
- Characters are using paradoxes.
- Characters trust appearances.
- Duncan trusts Macbeth - but dies for it.
- Macbeth trusts witches.
- Appearance can be deceptive.
- Fate and Free Will.
- Fate = everything has already been decided
- Free wil = humans choose their own course of action.
- Macbeth has been doomed from the start.
- Witches prophecies.
- Lady macbeth thinks Macbeth is fated to be king.
- Or was it Free Will?
- He didn't want to kill Duncan - control.
- Only acts because he hears his future - prophecies.
- Ambition
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