macbeth

• 'with tarquin's ravishing strides, towards his design.' A1S2, During which Macbeth is speaking before the murder of Duncan.

  • ambition
  • violence
  • supernatural
  • gender
  • tyanny
• To Seyton: 'I'll fight from my bones my flesh be hack'd: give me my armor.' A5S3, when Macbeth is confronted by malcolm and macduff (great birnam wood to dunsinane)

  
  

  • 'devilish macbeth' - malcolm
  • gender
  • violence
  • supernatural?
  • ambition
• 'Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood clean from my hand? No, this my hand will rather the multitudinous seas incarnadine, making the green one red.' A2S2

  • kingship
  • guilt
  • ambition
• To the ghost of banquo: 'Thy bones are marrowless, thy blood is cold.' A3S4

  • guilt
  • ambition that can lead to moral decay
  • appearance vs. reality
• (Enter the ghost of Banquo, and sits in Macbeth's place) A3S4

  • kingship
  • guilt
  • divine right/nature
  • appearance vs. reality
• 'Cancel and tear that great bond which keeps me pale' To Lady Macbeth, A3S3

  • Macbeth + Banquo's relationship
  • ambition
• 'Upon my head they placed a fruitless crown, and put a barren sceptre in my gripe.' A3S1 soliloquy

  • ambition
  • supernatural, 'they'
  • kingship
  • divine right/nature
  • appearance vs. reality
• 'Here lay Duncan/silver skin laced with golden blood/gashd stabs look like a breach in nature.' A2S3

  • kingship
  • divine right/nature
  • ambition
  • appearance vs. reality?
• 'To know my deed, twere best not know myself.' A2S2 after duncan's death


  • supernatural
  • guilt
  • ambition
  • free will
• 'I had most need of blessing and amen stuck in my throat'

  'i could not pronounce amen'

  • supernatural
  • religion
• A1S2 'stars hide your fires, let not light see my black and deep desires' BEFORE DUNCAN DEATH.

  • guilt
  • religion
  • supernatural
  • ambition
• A1S3 'So foul and fair a day i have not seen.' before meeting witches