Macbeth

• Name some key ideas of context in macbeth James 1=patron intrested in supernatural,great chain of being,divine right of kings jacobean era
• daemonlogie-book punished those that practiced withcraft
• "look like not the inhabitants o'the'earth= Banquo dehumanises evil. Flaterring james 1 as banquo anchestory. "beards" power synonymous with masculinity
• "the pit of acheron" = witches synonymous with evil and hell. "ACHERON" river in underworld in greek mythology. witches=tempting macbeths fate, appeases to james 1 deemonolgie
• "eye of newt" =deception and equivication, witches conform the archetype, heat and hell=evil nature of wittches. manifestations of macbeths dreams blinded him to their spell
• MACDUFF "here you see the tyrant" =restoring order to scotland,absent for most of play but is farming army and support,last words M hears ends destructive reign
• "i have no words my voice is my sword"=archetype of avenging hero,revenge but for good itentions, heroic +building audience relationship and is restoring divine right of kings
• "disdaining fortune smoked with bloody execution"=relentless force+nobility views superiority ,ambition=hamartia, manipulating natural order and divine right of kings
• "so foul and fair a day i have not seen" mouthpiece for witches=echoing words, gulibility havent met witches yet ambition is blinding, vessel for misconduct
• "make our faces vizards to our hearts" marionette for evil, influenced by ambition, doesnt have respectible qualities of the king, "vizards" masking/concealing evil
• "i fear thou played'st most foully for it" =not blinded by noble exterior of macbeth envious that banquo can restrain from overindulgence
• "instruments of darkness tell us truths"=seeking solance from heaven ,macbeth being played by the witches, christianity=hard to believe deciete
• "look like the innocent flower but be the serpent under t" =innocence,vunrubility of typical women, tempetation adam and eve,steriotypical women hiding intentions
• "dashed the brains out"= tactics to commit regicide, atypical women=yearns to emobdy masculinity as it is synonymous to power ,rejecting femininity
• "come thick night"= rejection of femininity, calling on darkness but in act 5 cannot reverse as trying to find light= foreshadows consequences and destroyed mental state
• What era is this set in=jacobean era