macbeth

• my mind is full of scorpions 


  he is saying that he is consumed by guilt(ptsd)
• be innocent of the knowledge dearest chuck 


  treats lady macbeth as an equal
• our fears in banquo stick deep


  he is jealous of banquos intelligence
• upon my head, they placed a fruitless crown


  -Macbeths main reason for killing Banquo is to prevent his son becoming kings

  -He is jealous of how all his sacrifices turned out to be something he doesn’t want

  -Use of the pronoun shows that he takes it personally
• o full of scorpions is my mind


  The use of the animal imagery illustrates best descent into madness
• stars hide your fires let light not see my black and deep desires


  -dark and light imagery

  -Links to the theme of deception
• but wherefore could not i pronounce amen


  -Macbeths inability to pray demonstrates how he has condemned himself and God’s eyes by committing regicide and killing God representative on earth

  -Therefore upsetting the great chain of being
• Macbeth does murder sleep

  The recurring motif of sleep appears several times the lack of sleep being a direct result of bloody deeds and subsequent guilt
• well, all great Neptune ocean wash this blood clean from my hand


  macbeths obsession with blood demonstrates his instant guilt and late descent into madness. This is also shown by lady macbeths sleepwalking
• wake Duncan with thou knocking I would thou couldst 


  Macbeth is showing how he instantly regrets his actions
• hear it, not Duncan for it is a knell that summons lead to heaven or to hell


  -this rhyming couplet emphasises the finality of Macbeth decision.

  -He is aware that he could be condemning Duncan to hell yet still proceeds it also links to his decision to murder banquo in act three.
• is this a dagger which I see before me?


  -this opening line of Macbeths soliloquy introduces his internal debate about whether or not he should kill Duncan

  -his hallucination of the dagger demonstrates the toil. The murder is already having on him.
• vaulting ambitions 


  -macbeths fatal flaw is his ambition,his ambition causes his downfall
• upon my head they placed a fruitless crown


  -fears that being long is a mistake and pointless
• unseamd him from the nave to the chaps(said by captain to macbeth)


  -macbeth is presented as brutal/gruesome

  -macbeth is shows as well respected
• our fears in banquo

  -macbeth fears banquos intelligent nature he is scared that he will figure out that he killed duncan