Themes Flashcards
(24 cards)
What are the 6 themes that could come up as a question on your GCSE?
- Appearance and Reality
- Ambition
- Guilt
- Supernatural
- Power
- Gender
What is Appearance and Reality?
- The idea of deception.
- Things aren’t how they seem.
Why is Ambition a key theme?
- Lady Macbeth and Macbeth’s desire for power and leads to their downfall
- Macduff and Duncan show you can actually just be a good person
How is blood used a motif?
- To show the consequence of actions
- Appears over 40 times in the play
- Blood represents Guilt
How is Supernatural used in Macbeth?
As a threat to witches in real life. To push them out of society
Why is Power a key theme?
- Macbeth’s Desire for power is his hamartia.
- Can link GCoB (Great Chain of Being) to this
- At the end the power is in the right hands
Gender - For the following characters are the conventional or unconventional?
- Lady Macbeth
- Lady Macduff
- Macbeth
- Macduff
- Lady Macbeth - Unconventional
- Lady Macduff - Conventional
- Macbeth - Unconventional
- Macduff - Conventional
Appearance and Reality - Finish the Quote: “fair is…”
“fair is foul and foul is fair”
Appearance and Reality - Finish the Quote: “look like the…”
“look like the innocent flower but be the serpent under’t”
Appearance and Reality - Finish the Quote: “stars hide your…”
“stars hide your fires let light not see your dark and deep desires”
Ambition - Finish the Quote: “tomorrow and…”
“tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow”
Ambition - Finish the Quote: “Thou wouldst…”
“Thou wouldst be great”
Ambition - Finish the Quote: “To be thus is…”
“To be thus is nothing, but to be safely thus”
Guilt - Finish the Quote: “Is that a…”
“Is that a dagger is see before me?”
Guilt - Finish the Quote: “out..”
“out damned spot”
Guilt - Finish the Quote: “Amen stuck…”
“Amen stuck in my throat2
Supernatural - Finish the Quote: “A dagger of…”
“A dagger of the mind”
Supernatural - Finish the Quote: “Come you…”
“Come you spirits who tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here”
Power - Finish the Quote: “All hail…”
“All hail Macbeth”
Power - Finish the Quote: “unsex…”
“unsex me here”
Power - Finish the Quote: “it will have blood…”
“it will have blood they say blood will have blood”
Gender - Finish the Quote: “Are you…”
“Are you a man?”
Gender - Finish the Quote: “Too full of…”
“Too full of the milk of human kindness”
Gender - Finish the Quote: “… like queen”
“Fiend like queen”
