Macbeth Lady Macbeth

Question 1

Quotation for lady Macbeth

Answer 1

(Enters with a taper) (Act 5)

Question 2

Enters with a taper what are the key structures we are analysing

Answer 2

• Symbolism
  -Christian Symbol
• Character development

Question 3

Quote to contrast with the Key quote

Answer 3

“come thick night”

Question 4

What motif does the quote (enters with a taper) (act 5) symbolise

Answer 4

Motif of light and darkness

Question 5

What does Symbolism show in the quotation (Enters with a taper) (4 + context 3)

Answer 5

-Taper provides light

-She is seeking light and hope as a refuge from her eternal mental torment and destruction due to her tyrannical actions.

• Wants a pathway to be illuminated to her redemption - Because she is shrouded in eternal mental darkness and guilt.
• Actively persuades via emasculation of Macbeth for him to commit regicide and usurp the throne

= she defies the natural order.
= goes against social constructs
= 7 deadly sins

Question 6

Christian iconography (symbol) of (enters with a taper) (act 5) 6

Answer 6

• Light = Christian symbol of hope.
• This is her plea for god to show her the light and a path to redemption from the sins that torment her.
• LM = a carcass of insanity.
• pleading with god for a second chance + redemption as she realises this is her anagnosis and realises the extreme consequences of her actions
• Here now = a tragic hero
• The sin they committed is irreversible and alike to the irreversible torment of guilt due to their actions and ambitions.

Question 7

Character change/ development.

Answer 7

Antithesis of the earlier “come thick night” (Act 1) motif of darkness and light.

In act 1, she wanted to cover and hide her desires and sins under darkness so that she feels she is hidden.

-Her command “Come thick night” embodies the sempiternal shadow of immorality that she is casting over her mind because she has committed the most the most sinful act of regicide.

Question 8

what does LM use to call the darkness

Answer 8

• Imperative fraises

Question 9

Context for ( Enters with a taper) ( Act 5 )

Answer 9

Divine right of kings = all-consuming guilt = gravity of their crime LM = plagued by guilt due to the disruption she has caused to the natural order.