kingship

• Kingship

  What it means to be king
• Essay plan

  1. Ambition

  2. Gender

  3. Guilt
• Macbeth's ambition

  • Unchecked, propelling him to become a blood thirsty tyrant who defies the divine right of kings and acquires the illegitimate title of king
• Lady Macbeth's tactics

  • Manipulative, urging Macbeth to commit regicide and kill king Duncan to fulfil his sinful ambition to become king
• Lady Macbeth: 'too full, o'the milk of human kindness'
• Macbeth going against divine law and acquiring kingship through illegitimate and violent means

  Leads to his tragic demise
• Macbeth: 'is this a dagger which I see before me?'