Critics

Question 1

Samuel Johnson

Answer 1

said in the 18th century, the play was ‘the danger of ambition well described’

Question 2

Jerijoy La Belle

Answer 2

claims that Lady Macbeth’s ‘femininity relates to motherhood’.

Question 3

some critics

Answer 3

have argued that this is Shakespeare’s most misogynistic play that traces the root of chaos and evil back to women

Question 4

Modern critics

Answer 4

say that only the death of macbeth at the hand of macduff makes him re-evaluate life

Question 5

Sigmund Freud (mind)

Answer 5

said that what the mind rejects in one form will probably haunt it in another.

Question 6

Harold Bloom

Answer 6

said that Macbeth is anything but a Christian tragedy; it is a moral catastrophe

Question 7

Bradley

Answer 7

says that Macbeth’s destiny comes from his character; his tragic flaw.

Question 8

Goddard

Answer 8

argued the witches represent something real in human psychology, the inscrutable forces behind human life.

Question 9

L.C Knights

Answer 9

said Shakespeare’s use of language is to obtain a total complex and emotional response

Question 10

Janet Adelman

Answer 10

argues that the play is concerned with eliminating the female and trying to establish the male as self sufficient.

Question 11

Mary McCarty

Answer 11

sees a struggle between a male aggressive insensitive force and a softer, maternal quality.