Macbeth

• "Brave Macbeth- well he deserves that name" - Ross

  The patriarchal Jacobean society judged people on their bravery
• "Let not light see my dark and deep desires" - Macbeth


  Act 1 scene 4

  Light can be a metaphor for God

  Macbeth is already having dark desires

  The power of supernatural

  The catalyst for Macbeth's change is meeting the witches
• "Unsex me here, and fill me, from the crown to the toe, top-full of direst cruelty"- Lady Macbeth Act 1 Scene 5

  She wants to remove her femineity

  Fill me with the worst possible evil
• "When thou durst do it, then you were a man" - Lady Macbeth


  Act 1 scene 7

  Challenges Macbeths masculinity
• "Will all of great Neptune's ocean wash this blood clean from my hand" - Macbeth

  Blood is a metaphor for guilt

  He is used to killing

  Macbeth is emotionless

  Act 2 Scene 2
• "Out, out, brief candle, life's but a walking shadow" - Macbeth


  Act 2 Scene 5

  Always chasing your shadow,

  Shadow is his desires, a constant pursuit

  Macbeth's candle is blown out by Macduff

  Life is a candle
• "Look like the innocent flower, but be the serpent under it" - Lady Macbeth

  LM tells Macbeth how to be two faced
• "Full of scorpions is my mind" - Macbeth 


  Act 3 Scene 2

  Scorpions are eating away on his mind
• "Fair is foul, and foul is fair" - The witches


  Act 1 Scene 1

  Summarises the whole play

  Good is bad and bad is good
• "The instruments of darkness tells us truths, win us with honest trifles, and betray us with deep consequences" - Banquo


  Act 1 Scene 3

  Foreshadowing evil

  Witches betray Macbeth