Vocabulary

• notion


  belief
• perils


  danger (perils of femininity/power)
• androgyny


  possession of both masculine and feminine characteristics
• despot


  tyrant
• capricious


  unpredictable
• feasible


  possible
• cryptic


  mysterious
• infernal


  relating to bell
• alleviate


  making less severe
• proxy


  representing someone else (Lady Macbeth proxy of witches)
• crux


  focal point
• heresies


  going against God
• moral integrity


  honest and firm in moral principles
• pagan ritual of invocation


  interacting with supernatural spirits
• vicissitude


  change of circumstance that's unfortunate
• perfidious


  deceitful and untrustworthy
• depravity


  moral corruption
• subordinate


  lower in rank/position
• zealotry


  extreme obsession/devotion to something
• Machiavellian


  cunning, scheming (a person who schemes in a Machiavelliar)
• psyche


  brain
• overzealous


  obsessive
• fatale


  manipulative woman
• deuteragonist


  second most significant character
• physiognomy


  when appearances are reflective of your character
• tempestuous


  very stormy
• subterfuge


  deceit used in order to achieve one's goal
• deceit


  deceiving someone by concealing the truth
• polarisation


  splitting of one's character
• raven


  really shocked
• astute


  clever/smart