Macbeth

• Who is introduced during Act 1 Scene 1?

  The Witches
• What are the major themes explored in Macbeth?

  The major themes in Macbeth include ambition, guilt and conscience, appearance vs reality, fate vs free will, and gender roles.
• How do Macbeth and Lady Macbeth differ in their handling of guilt?

  Macbeth experiences immediate guilt and hallucinations, while Lady Macbeth's guilt emerges later as sleepwalking and madness.
• What book did King James I write that influenced Macbeth?

  King James I wrote "Daemonologie," which was about witchcraft.
• Lady Macbeth's Character Shift

  Lady Macbeth initially domineering but later consumed by guilt, paranoia, and suicidal thoughts after the murder
• “Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood clean from my hands“ - Macbeth
• 1604 The Witchcraft Act made witchcraft an offence punishable by death
• “Look like th’ innocent flower, but be the serpent under ‘t“ - Lady Macbeth
• “Out, damned spot” - Lady Macbeth
• “Fair is foul, and foul is fair” - Three Witches
• “Come ye spirits… unsex me here” - Lady Macbeth
• What is Macbeth’s hamartia?


  His “vaulting ambition”