macbeth

• Guilt context

  Regicide- disgrace in jacobean period due to great chain of being

  Shakespeare supports religious ideology

  Guilt is hellish forever tormenting hom
• Guilt- Lady Macbeth

  Irony as before she criticised Macbeth for feeling guilt and says to just wash it away

  All the sweet perfumes of arabia will not sweeten this little hand.
• Guilt. Neptune- Greek God of the sea

  Even the most powerful waters could not wash away what he did and the guilt he felt

  Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood clean from my hand?
• Guilt-Insomnia

  Feels he would feel more at peace in death

  Hellish torment of his mind- for his sin of regicides

  Better to be witb the dead… than on the torture of the mind to lie in restless ecstasy
• Guilt

  Thinks he wont have any of God’s forgiveness

  Metaphor

  His holiness has declined due to commiting regicide

  I had most need of blessing and ‘Amen stuck in my throat
• Supernatural and appearance vs reality

  Nothing is as what it seems

  Shakespeare has this like a summary for what is to come in the play

  Oxymoron

  Fair is foul and foul is fair
• Supernatural

  Either a ghostly vision or from the causation of ambition by the supernatural witches

  Imagery

  Is this a dagger which i see before me? Handle toward my hand?
• Supernatural and appearance vs reality

  Lady Macbeth

  Adam and ev— promised goodness but revenge was God’s wrath

  Lady macbeth and macbeth were brought back with severe guilt

  Look like the innocent flower but be the serpent ubdert
• Ambition

  Intentions compared to horse and rider- metaphor

  No spur- no reason except ambition

  I bave no sour to prick the side of my intent- only vaulting ambition
• Ambition

  Scorpions- poisonous, deadly

  Leading to his fatal flaw so it is deadly

  Metaphor

  O full of scorpions is my mind dear wife
• Ambition

  Personification of chance

  Tragic- torn between letting fate unfold or disrupting kingship and the great chain of being

  If chance have me king, why, chance crown me without my stir
• Manipulation

  The witches twisted the truth

  None of woman born shall harm macbeth
• Manipulation

  Lady Macbeth calling Macbeth demeaning adjectives to make him feel he has a worth after killing Duncan and not when he has anxiety

  So green and pale

  Coward
• Manipulation

  Questioning masculinity

  When you durst do it, then you were the man