Macbeth

• Lady Macbeth plays a significant role in encouraging Macbeth to commit regicide and fulfill his ambitions.
• "Out damned spot! Out I say!" - Lady Macbeth
• "O full of scorpions is my mind dear wife!" - Macbeth
• "I have no spur To prick the sides of my intent, but only Vaulting ambition" - Macbeth
• In Act 2 Scene 1, Macbeth hallucinates a dagger and questions his own sanity.
• Lady Macbeth's suicide is a result of her guilt and inability to cope with the consequences of their actions.
• Macbeth's character is initially portrayed as brave, loyal, and honorable but becomes increasingly ruthless and paranoid as the play progresses.
• Duncan is the king of Scotland at the beginning of the play and is murdered by Macbeth.
• The witches are supernatural beings who manipulate events and influence characters throughout the play.
• "Come, you spirits / That tend on mortal thoughts" - Witches' chant
• "Double, double, toil and trouble; Fire burn and cauldron bubble." - Witch's incantation
• "All hail Macbeth that shalt be king hereafter!" - Witch prophecy
• Macbeth becomes hero

  Captain : " brave ... noble ... worthy"
• Macbeth becomes a tragic hero

  "Stars hide your fires. Let not light see my black and deep desires"
• Macbeth becomes a tragic hero

  " I have no spur to prick the sides of my vaulting ambition"
• Macbeth becomes a tragic hero

  " Dagger of the mind"
• Macbeth disgraced and killed in the end

  MacDuff : " Hell hound"
• Macbeth disgraced and killed in the end

  Malcom: " Dead butcher and his fiend like queen"
• This supernatural soliciting cannot be ill , cannot be good"

  1.3 Supernatural / religious imagery , mortality
• "False face must hide what the false heart doth know"


  1.7 Face motif
• "Fruitless crown .. barren sceptre"

  3.1 Symbolism
• "Stones have been known to move and trees to speak What is this night?"

  3.4 superstition,metaphor