Macbeth

• Regicide


  The killing of a monarch
• Treason


  Plotting or going against the monarch
• Macbeth was written by William Shakespeare


  1606
• In the 1600's it was thought that a monarch ruled by "divine right" which means that God chose the King, so treason was not only an act against the King but against God himself
• Key themes in Macbeth


  • Ambition
  • Guilt
  • Conflict
• Essay Writing

  1. Writing an introduction

  2. Writing a main body paragraph

  3. Writing a conclusion
• Types of essay questions

  • Character
  • Conflict
  • Scene
  • Key theme
  • Relationships
• Ambition


  Macbeth is valuable to the King, but becomes ambitious after the witches tell him he will become King
• Macbeth: '"brave Macbeth"'
• Macbeth: '"O valiant cousin"'
• Macbeth: '"To know my deed, 'twere best not to know myself"'
• Macbeth: '"We have scorched the snake not killed it"'
• Macbeth: '"wife and babes savagely slaughtered"'
• Macbeth: '"O full of scorpions is my mind"'
• Macbeth: '"The tables full"'
• Malcolm: '"dead butcher"'
• Macbeth: '"I have done the deed"'
• Macbeth: '"This is a step on which I must fall down or else o'erleap"'
• Macbeth: '"I have no spur to prick the sides of my intent, but only vaulting ambition"'
• MacDuff: '"Hell-bound"'
• Macbeth: '"Be innocent of thy knowledge dearest chuck"'
• Macbeth: '"she should have died hereafter"'
• Lady Macbeth: '"unsex me here"'
• Lady Macbeth: '"Too full o'the milk of human kindness"'
• King Duncan: '"O valiant cousin"'
• Captain: '"For brave Macbeth (well he deserves that name)"'
• Macbeth: '"This is a sorry sight"'
• Macbeth: '"Stars, hide your fires; let not light see my black and deep desires"'
• Macbeth: '"swords I smile at"'
• Banquo: '"I fear thou play'dst most foully for't"'
• MacDuff: '"My voice is in my sword, that bloodier villain"'
• Macbeth: '"my dearest partner of greatness"'
• Lady Macbeth: '"I shame to wear a heart so white"'
• Macbeth: '"Are you Banquo's ghost?"'
• Macbeth: '"You lack the season of all natures, sleep"'
• Macbeth: '"Out, out, brief candle!"'
• Macbeth: '"To be thus is nothing, but to be safely thus"'
• Macbeth: '"There is none but he whose being I do fear"'
• Macbeth: '"I will fight from my bones my flesh be hacked"'
• Macbeth's ambition


  Leads him to kill the King, become a tyrant, and eventually leads to his downfall and death