AMBITION SUPERNATURAL
"All hail, Macbeth, that shalt be king hereafter!" "Fair is foul and Foul is Fair"
Playing on MB ambition Go against Nat Order(Oxymoron)
WITCHES Plant idea of regicide in MB head. Like a spell being cast(Alliteration+ Couplet)
God reference, divine right of kings, Echoing witches= makes connection, MB hasn't met them yet,
MACBETH supernatural, metaphor refers to battle against Norwegians, antithesis; words are in direct contrast
"Yet I do fear thy nature; It is too full of the milk of human kindness." "Come, you spirits that tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here"
MB=to kind, nat order, won't be able to fulfill LM ambitious interests LM= wants spirits to remove any human- emotional- thoughts, no
MB is still a child that needs to be guided, metaphor remorse, metaphor, devil + familiars
"Look like th' innocent flower but be the serpent under't" "Hie thee hither, that I may pour my spirits in thine ear."
Duplicitous, look kind but be evil, serpent= religious connotations for the Metaphor, make MB murder Duncan-manipulation- LM at this point
LADY MACBETH devil, appearance vs reality goes against Gender Stereotypes of the time
Banquo has some ambition, not as much as MB, won't act on it, perceives "thoughts that nature gives way to in repose"
BANQUO prophecies with scepticism, takes witches as old women Nat order, sees going against as bad, royalist?
Religious connotations- fortune=God?, MD calls on Fortune to find MB so Cathartic foreshadow, MB downfall, violent language- show bloodlust
MACDUFF he can have revenge, fate + supernatural or could refer to equipment at time, that's how it was
CONTEXT Supernatural= popular in 1600s, King James led witch hunts after
(AO3) MB Hamartia, could be to show how ambition can corrupt a person. 'witches' changed the weather so he couldn't see his wife.
"All hail, Macbeth, that shalt be king hereafter!" "Fair is foul and Foul is Fair"
Playing on MB ambition Go against Nat Order(Oxymoron)
WITCHES Plant idea of regicide in MB head. Like a spell being cast(Alliteration+ Couplet)
God reference, divine right of kings, Echoing witches= makes connection, MB hasn't met them yet,
MACBETH supernatural, metaphor refers to battle against Norwegians, antithesis; words are in direct contrast
"Yet I do fear thy nature; It is too full of the milk of human kindness." "Come, you spirits that tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here"
MB=to kind, nat order, won't be able to fulfill LM ambitious interests LM= wants spirits to remove any human- emotional- thoughts, no
MB is still a child that needs to be guided, metaphor remorse, metaphor, devil + familiars
"Look like th' innocent flower but be the serpent under't" "Hie thee hither, that I may pour my spirits in thine ear."
Duplicitous, look kind but be evil, serpent= religious connotations for the Metaphor, make MB murder Duncan-manipulation- LM at this point
LADY MACBETH devil, appearance vs reality goes against Gender Stereotypes of the time
Banquo has some ambition, not as much as MB, won't act on it, perceives "thoughts that nature gives way to in repose"
BANQUO prophecies with scepticism, takes witches as old women Nat order, sees going against as bad, royalist?
Religious connotations- fortune=God?, MD calls on Fortune to find MB so Cathartic foreshadow, MB downfall, violent language- show bloodlust
MACDUFF he can have revenge, fate + supernatural or could refer to equipment at time, that's how it was
CONTEXT Supernatural= popular in 1600s, King James led witch hunts after
(AO3) MB Hamartia, could be to show how ambition can corrupt a person. 'witches' changed the weather so he couldn't see his wife.
