AO3

• jacobean era king James Vl
• its a dramatic tragedy
• witches act as a catalyst for events
• harmartia is a fatal flaw; Macbeth's lust for power is his ultimate downfall
• catharsis is the climax in act 5 where macbeth loses his wife, the throne and his own life resulting in the audience pitting macebth
• character of banquo

  originally he was partner to macbeth in the killing of Duncan however because king James believed he could trace has lineage to banquo Shakespeare made banquo an honourable man
• the plot comes from the story of Holinshed's chronicles
• jacobeans were extremely interested in witchcraft and the supernatural
• they believed only women could be witches as they were the weaker sex
• proof of this is the story of Adam and eve; eve was more easliy influenced to evil because shes a women
• hecate is the Greek goddess of witchcraft
• macbeths actions disrupt
• gun powder plot of 1605
• macbeth represents a warning to audience
• pathetic fallacy

  fog represents the uncertainty and mystery at the start of the play