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Macbeth to Subvert D Praises M and B, WS Tell M He Is Safe Until 4 These Traditional Gender Roles Plot Context Vocabu 3 Witches: King James believed in witches, and wrote Daemonologie, a book about witches powers which lary 1. A storm. 3 witches plan Banquet scene. M sees B’s . included their powers, such as creating storms. Many people believed him, and witches were popular on stage. 1 to meet M. ghost, unsettles guests. autocratic 4 Weather Portents: Superstitious members of Shakespeare’s audience made predications about their lives based on the weather, for example some people thought thunder was a sign of an imminent death, and an East wind hubris KD’s army has defeated 3 represents evil, as alluded to in The Bible. 1. Hecate tells WS their infanticide rebels. Executes Thane . prophecies will destroy M. Equivocation: In Elizabethan and Jacobean England, Protestantism was the only legal religion and fines and 2 of Cawdor, title to M. issue 5 punishments were given to Catholics. Jesuit priests developed the doctrine of equivocation: they could say one thing but mean another, meaning they could lie even under oath. massacre WS tell M he will be 3 Suspicions of M are 1. ToC & king, and B his discussed as well as . Gender Roles: Women were considered subordinate to men. They took status from men in society, and LM’s maternal 3 sons will be kings. Ross reports that McD in Eng to role as a nobleman’s wife was to manage the household and entertain. For men, in Scotland especially, there tells M he is thane. 6 join Mal. was a warrior culture where men were seen to be bloodthirsty. Ultimately, women were seen to be weak morality : Literature English bodied and men as powerful, dominant beings. It can be argued that Shakespeare uses Macbeth to subvert D praises M and B, WS tell M he is safe until 4 these traditional gender roles. paternal 1. names Mal as next king, the wood comes alive & . 4 and plans visit to M’s that he cannot be harmed Prophecies: People believed in prophecies in Shakespeare’s time: Queen Elizabeth and King James frequently purgatory castle. 1 by one ‘of women born’. used astrologers to predict their futures. Many Christians believed the devil could use false or misleading regicide prophecies to tempt people into evil. Banquo is worried the witches prophecies are traps designed to make LM reads M’s letter 4 Macbeth do terrible things: this would be obvious to an Elizabethan audience. However, once the first prophecy 1. about WS. He arrives: M’s men kill Lady McD and tragedy comes true Macbeth’s belief is so strong that he bases his decisions on them. she persuades him to . children. 5 treason kill KD. 2 Regicide and Restoration: The reformation in the Sixteenth Century made some people think differently about regicide. As it was normal for the monarch to decide the religion of the country, some extremists plotted tyrant 4 McD joins Mal. News of 1. LM welcomes KD and assassinations (for example the 1605 gunpowder plot) in an attempt to switch the country’s religion. The theory murder of McD’s family. uprising court. of divine right of kings (based on the principles of the great chain of being) justified the king's absolute 6 Agree to invade Scot. authority in both political and spiritual matters. Most people in Shakespeare’s original audiences would have 3 usurp been shocked at the idea of killing a king. Terminol M decides not to 5 1. LM observed Succession: For Shakespeare’s audience, succession- how one king or queen followed the last- was an important ogy murder D; LM changes . political issue. From about 1590, people worried about who would succeed Queen Elizabeth as she had no Macbeth 7 sleepwalking. aside his mind. 1 children. When James was declared the next King of England, he chose Shakespeare and his fellow actors as his royal company, The King’s Men, which seems to have directly influenced Shakespeare to write Macbeth (a play, soliloquy M meets B & Fleance. 5 ultimately, about Scotland and succession). 2. M’s army invades; Scot He sees dagger leading symbolism . rebels join. 1 him to KD’s room. Tragic Hero: According to Aristotle, tragic heroes start off as great or excellent, but they have a fatal flaw 2 (hamartia)- often pride (hubris). This leads to a reversal of fortunes (peripeteia) and the heroes downfall. motif M kills KD, but brings 5 M’s supporters are foreshadow 2. daggers. LM takes back Adjectives to describe Character deserting. Doc can’t cure to frame grooms. Knock . resolution 2 LM. at gate. 3 Lady Macbeth: manipulative / dominant / weak / powerful / emasculating / controlling / hypocritical / remorseful / cunning / Machiavellian / sensual climax McD discovers KD dead. 5 2. Mal’s army cuts branches Macbeth: indecisive / ambitious / impulsive / intuitive / callous / tyrannical / duplicitous / zealous / catharsis M kills grooms. KD’s . 3 as camouflage. contemplative / ruthless / weak sons flee. 4 hamartia Banquo: loyal / paternal / intuitive / virtuous / shrewd / diplomatic McD reports grooms peripeteia 5 M told of LM’s death & 2. killed KD, KD’s sons Duncan: ignorant / naïve / trusting / respectful / weak / moral / respected wood is advancing. Doubts pentameter fled, and M is chosen . 4 WS. Macduff: aggressive / reckless / neglectful / heroic / emotional for king. 5 pathetic Lady Macduff: ignorant / critical / naïve fallacy 5 3. B suspects M. M plans . Mal’s army attacks. Wyrd Sisters: sinister / scheming / prophetic protagonist 1 to kill B and Fleance. Key Quotations ‘Fair is foul and foul is fair’ 3. ‘Hence, horrible shadow’ 1.1 The witches instantly create an ambiguous atmosphere. 4 Macbeth orders Banquo’s ghost to disappear. ‘He unseamed him from the nave to th’ chops’ 3. ‘A wayward son, spiteful and wrathful’ 1.2 Macbeth’s brutal killing of the rebel Macdonwald. 5 Hecate’s description of Macbeth. ‘What! Can the devil speak true?’ 3. ‘Our suffering country, under an accursed hand.’ 1.3 Banquo’s shock when the witches prediction comes true. 6 Lennox laments the state of Scotland under Macbeth’s reign. ‘Let not light see my black and deep desires’ 4. ‘Something wicked this way comes’ 1.4 Macbeth struggles to hide his desire to kill the king. 1 Witches describe Macbeth’s approach. ‘It is too full of the milk of human kindness’ 4. ‘Wisdom! To leave his wife, his babes?’ Macbeth 1.5 Lady Macbeth worries Macbeth is too weak to murder. 2 Lady Macduff criticizes her husband. ‘This castle hath a pleasant seat’ 4. ‘What, all my pretty chickens?’ 1.6 Duncan ironically states Macbeth’s castle is a lovely place. 3 Macduff’s utter grief when he discovers his family’s slaughter. ‘Vaulting ambition / Which overleaps itself’ 5. ‘Out, damned spot, out I say!’ 1.7 Quotations Key Macbeth recognizes his ambition is running away with him. 1 Lady Macbeth’s guilt cannot be washed away. ‘Is this a dagger which I see before me?’ 5. ‘Like a giant’s robe on a dwarfish thief.’ 2.1 Macbeth sees a vision of a dagger. 2 Angus’s description of Macbeth. ‘A little water clears us of this deed’ 5. ‘No man born of woman shall ever have power upon thee.’ 2.2 Lady Macbeth believes they can wash away the evidence. 3 Macbeth reminds himself that he is infallible. ‘Oh horror, horror, horror!’ 5. ‘Let every soldier hew him down a bough’ 2.3 Macduff’s utter disgust upon finding Duncan’s corpse. 4 Malcolm orders his soldiers to cut down trees for camouflage. ‘No cousin, I’ll to Fife.’ 5. ‘Life’s but a walking shadow’ 2.4 Macduff goes home opposed to attending the coronation. 5 Macbeth voices his despair about the hopelessness of life. ‘I fear thou play’dst most foully for it’ 5. ‘Worthy Macduff’ 3.1 Banquo begins to recognize Macbeth is scheming. 6 Malcolm’s description of Macduff as he leads the army into war. ‘O full of scorpions is my mind!’ 5. ‘But swords I smile at, weapons laugh to scorn’ 3.2 Macbeth’s mental state begins to deteriorate. 7 Macbeth revels in the belief he cannot be killed. ‘Fly, good Fleance, fly, fly, fly!’ 5. ‘Macduff was from his mother’s womb / Untimely ripped.’ 3.3 Appearan Supernatu AmbitionBanquo cries to Fleance to escape. Good Equivocati 8 MacduffGuilt declares heKingship was not born of woman. Order ce ral and and on and and And and and And Power Evil Ambiguity Justice Scotland Disorder Reality Witchcraft.
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