Macbeth mock

• Macbeth:

  “Caved out his passage“

  Macbeth is presented as a brutal and efficient warrior
• Macbeth:

  “The greatest is behind“


  views the final prophecy as the greatest- likes the idea of being kind
• witches “something wicked this way comes“


  witches call macbeth ’wicked‘ - he has always had potential for evil inside of him
• Lady Macbeth :

  “ come, you spirits…unsexy me here and fill me… with the direst cruelty“

  Lady m calls help from the Evil spirits to make her more Evil and commit/ plan regicide
• lady Macbeth: “look like the innocent flower but be the serpent under it“


  lady m encourages macbeth to be devious and deceptive
• Guilt “star, hide your fires, let not see my black and deep desires“


  Macbeth wants his evil thoughts to be concealed as he knows they are shameful
• Madness “ is this dagger Which I see before me?”


  hallucinated a dagger before killing Duncan. foreshadows that he will not cope with guilt
• Supernatural “fair is foul and foul is foul”


  Witches start off the play by saying everything is not as it’s seems

  zoom in on:

  Paradox- truth is not clear
• Super natural: “ stay, you imperfect speakers, tell me more“


  macbeth is not at ease with the witches, he wants to know more and is not satisfied with what he already knows

  Zoom in on:

  adjective : imperfect
• Ambition : “that is a step on which I must fall down or overleap”


  macheth sees Malcom as an obstacle in his way to being king, in some way is he is meant to be “brave“ but seems to be acting scared of someone below him
• ambition:” I have no spur to prick the sides of my intent, but only vaulting ambition“


  Macbeth feels he has ambition but lacks motivation to do what needs to be done to be king
• Macbeth as a hero: “alls to weak for brave macbeth“


  respected by many at the start of the play as a great warrior
• Macbeth as hero: “ brandished steel, which smoked with bloody execution “


  image created of Macbeth as a fearless and savage warrior for the king