WORDS TO DESCRIBE

• Anagnorisis - Act 5 


  When hero recognises their looming downfall FOR EXAMPLE: When LB commits suicide and Birnam woods is charging towards Macbeth
• Peripeteia 


  Sudden change in the story which is negative circumstances FOR EXAMPLE: When Macbeth commits regicide
• Catharsis 


  Release of emotions through pity/fear FOR EXAMPLE: audience experience catharsis as they fear his blood-thirst rampage whilst also put him for indulging in his ambition.
• Tragic hero 


  Macbeth has a downfall
• Hamartia 


  Macbeths hamartia is his ambition
• Duplicitousness 


  witches are deceitful so is Macbeth and Lady Macbeth
• Motif of sleep 


  Macbeth + Lady Macbeth's lack of sleep
• Irresistible allure 


  allure of kingship
• Tyrannical 


  Macbeth wants to be tyrannical
• Carcass of insanity 


  being insane, shell of their former self
• Hubris 


  excessive pride
• Violating divine order/law 


  Macbeth and Lady Macbeth actions violate this
• Shakespeares Intentions (1)

  Shakespeare utilises ambition as a central theme to underpin the plat revealing its morally corrosive and blinding influence on individual driven by self-fulfilling egocentric aspirations
• Shakespeares Intentions (2)

  As King Jame I was a patron to his plays Shakespeare uses the play as a veiled allegory. He intertwines the act of regicide with tormenting guilt, a potent reminder of the potential consequences for those who distrust the divinely ordained order
• Shakespeares Intentions (3)

  Shakespeare cautions the audience about the perilous consequences of succumbing to the irresistible allure of supernatural powers, emphasising that such engagement with his dark force inevitably results in a quick and catastrophic demise.