Macbeth Theme Analysis
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- Created on: 21-11-16 19:41
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- Themes in Macbeth
- Ambition
- the ruthless seeking of power by Macbeth and also Lady Macbeth. This ambition makes Macbeth more stronger and the ambition leads to evil
- Masculinity
- during the play Lady Macbeth manipulates Macbeth into killing Duncan by questioning his masculinity
- this is seen particularly in Act 1 Scene 7: "was the hope drunk, wherein you dressed yourself"
- here Lady Macbeth compares his inital behaviour to someone who is intoxicated
- "when you doth do it then you were a man" the effect of this quote is that Lady Macbeth is saying that Macbeth is a coward and can't follow through with the actions
- this is seen particularly in Act 1 Scene 7: "was the hope drunk, wherein you dressed yourself"
- during the play Lady Macbeth manipulates Macbeth into killing Duncan by questioning his masculinity
- Evil
- Macbeth has the intentions of murder, destroying whatever is good
- the supernatural
- the very first characters we meet are the witches
- Context
- In Shakespeare's time (Jacobean) belief in witchcraft was very strong and many wicthes were burnt at the stake
- during Act 2 Scene 2 Macbeth is unable to say "amen" this suggests that God has already condemned him
- Nature
- Frequent images of animals and birds are often omnious. Shakespeare shows how evil overruns Scotland by using images of nature disturbed
- "a falcon tow'ring in her pride of place was by a mousing owl hawked at and killed
- this suggests that it is unnatural for a falcon to be killed by a mouse.
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- "a falcon tow'ring in her pride of place was by a mousing owl hawked at and killed
- Frequent images of animals and birds are often omnious. Shakespeare shows how evil overruns Scotland by using images of nature disturbed
- Ambition
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