mr salles predictions vid Flashcards
(8 cards)
-guilt starts early, as an cautionary tale
-the concept of regicide is horrifying him, this emphasises the power of guilt
-understanding guilt, will prevent you from commiting sin
“why do I yield to that suggestion / whose image doth unfix my hair”
act 1 scene 3
-guilt sends you mad
-shakespeare uses this hallucanation
-embraces madness, and rejects guilt
-highlights the influence of the supernatural
-dagger is a manifesatation of the witches prophecy, fate v free will
-macbeth’s deep internal conflict, and emphasis on his vunlreability
-use of vivid imagery, reflects the disturbed mind of macbeth.
“is this a dagger which i see before me”
-act 2 scene 1
soliloquay
-shakespeare dramatising the quick descent into madness
-being king is worthless, unless you are the divine right of king, shakespeare political messege to keep king james, pleasing king james as shakespeare was paid by him
-sleep symbolises peace and clear consciense, through killing duncan macbeth has destroyed his own ability to rest
-emphasises macbeth’s paranioa
-metaphor ‘murder’ conveys the destrcution of his personal peace, foreshadowing his descent into madness
-starts the tragic downfall, early sign of physociological battles
“sleep no more, macbeth doth murder sleep”
act 2 scene 2
-after macbeth his disoybed god, through not being a divine righ of king, he results into a primitve god
-shakespeare ideas that guilt will force you to reject god, this would lead to an utternatiy in hell
-irony as macbeth doesnt care about how many people he has kiled
-use of rhetorical question
-foreshadows when L.M. ‘out damned spot’, and how she is hynopitsed by the guilt
“will all great neptune’s wash this blood clean from my hand?”
2, 2
guilt is forming, macbeth is fearful of the ghost of banquo
“never shake thy gory locks at me”
-damned signifyies shes going to hell
-caused such sin, her soul will be in hell, christain image
“out damned spot, out i say… Hell is murky!”
5, 1
-cant escape the consequences of whats been done, a metaphor of how macbeth lifes turn out to be
-links to unsex me here, when L.M is rejecting her role as a women, which was so ubsurd in a patraicharl society, lead to her punishment
-shakespeare wrote this to his audience to stop women from wanting more
-death of lady macbeth’s child can be a motif for purpose, as she cannot be a mother, sympathy for audience
-shakespeare shows how the patraicharl society attacks women
“whats done cannot be undone”
5 , 1
thesis statement
cautionary tale - uses macbeth guilt and ursurpment to show committing regicide will destroy mental health and well-being, its not worth killing king james, intresting as shakespeare was payed by king james, and the play was presented to the chrisitian audience.
cautionary tale, L.M. consumed and destroyed by guilt, women need to learn their place, cant show ambition and be subservent to men, supporting the patraicharl soceital beliefs.
witches have no guilt= holy evil, evil is what macbeth becomes and is destoryed.