'O, full of scorpions is my mind, dear wife! ' - Act 3 Scene 2
Macbeth uses a metaphor to explain that his guilty conscience is attacking and stinging him. Macbeth uses a simile to say that he would rather deal with wild animals than Banquo's ghost which he has just seen.
Toxicmasculinity
Lady Macbeth goads her husband into committing regicide, after which she becomes queen of Scotland
Macbeth is a dramatic tragedy
It also deals with issues such as guilt, ambition, betrayal, loyalty, murder, madness, fate, free will, appearance vs reality, supernatural elements, gender roles, and the consequences of one’s actions
The play explores the corrupting influence of power on those who seek it at any cost
Stars, hide your fires, let not light see my black and deep desires.
Symbols of supernatural in Macbeth
The dagger hallucinations, king Duncan’s ghost, the witches & prophecies
“Macbeth has murdered sleep”
King James 1’s book about the dangers of witches was called?
Demonology
I have no spur to prick the sides of my intent, but only vaulting ambition
When shall we three meet again? In thunder, lightning or in rain? When the hurlyburly's done when the battle is lost and won
If chance will have me king why, chance may crown me without my stir
A little water clears us of this deed
Double, double, toil and trouble; Fire burn and cauldron bubble
