Macbeth - context

Question 1

What type of play is Macbeth?

Answer 1

a dramatic tragedy

Question 2

How was Macbeth influenced by King James’ interest in supernatural?

Answer 2

King James wrote a book called Daemonologie
which was split in 3 parks:
-magic and necromancy
-Witchcraft and sorcery
-Spirits and spectres

Which are all included in Macbeth.

Question 3

Why is the Divine Right of Kings so important?

Answer 3

God choses the king himself so the king is the closest person to God, the great chain of being

(Macbeth fails as he goes to the witches - demonic beings-)

Question 4

Why is the great chain of being relevant?

Answer 4

When Macbeth commits regicide he also commits a sin against the order of the universe.

“A falcon, Was by a mousing owl hawk’d at and killed” -animal imagery represents regicide and the disruption of the natural order.
upsets the natural hierarchy

Question 5

What religious allusions are there in Macbeth and LM

Answer 5

She persuades her husband to sin just like Eve did with Adam.