Macbeth

• King Duncan 


  Hamartia is being too trusting

  Illustrates divine rights of king

  ”O valien cousin! Worthy gentleman” A1 S2

  ”Fair and noble hostess” A1 S6
• Macbeth (bad)


  “Stay you imperfect speakers, tell me more” A1 S3

  ”Will all great neptunes wash blood from my hands” A2 S2

  Guilty at first

  Disrupts chain of being

  Disrupts divine right of kings
• Lady Macbeth


  “Come you spirits unsex me here“ A1 S5

  ”Too full of the milk of human kindness“ A1 S5

  “Look like the innocent flower but be the serpent under it” A1 S5
• Banquo


  “Fly good fleance fly” A3 S3

  “Instruments of darkness tell us the truth”

  Innocent, stays out of the witches business
• Macduff


  “Oh horror horror horror” A2 S3

  ”I have no words my voice is my sword“ A5 S8

  ”Bleed poor country bleed” A4 S3
• Kingship


  Divine right

  Good qualities

  Macbeth disrupts it

  Restoration of order after Macbeth
• The witches


  “Fair is foul and foul is fair“ A1 S1

  ”No man born of woman shall harm thee“ A4 S1

  Unequivocal

  ”the weird sisters”