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Macbeth (Motifs (Hallucinations (throughout play, reminders for Macbeth…

- - - - "And nothing is. But what is not."
      - EX. " I have thee not, and yet I see thee still"
      - EX. "Thou shalt get kings, though thou be none"
      - EX. "Fair is foul, and foul is fair"
      - EX. "Lesser than Macbeth, and greater"
  - - - "Till then, enough. - Come, friends."
      - "Shall sun that morrow see"
      - "A little water clears of this deed"
      - "Fail not our feast" - "My lord, I will not"
      - "Blood will have blood"
      - “Fly, good Fleance, fly, fly, fly! Thou mayst
        revenge – O slave!”
    - - macbeth king, banquo's sons kings, Brigham wood on Dunsinane hill
    - - thunder and lighting #
        
        adds suspense
        
        foreshadows the witches
        
        witches control the weather, creating 'bad' weather; rain, thunder, hail, wind, earthquakes, etc.
        
        night of Duncan's murder thunder and lightning storm raged
        
        Ross and old man discuss the strange happenings
      - sun --> peace
      - night --> death
      - CONTEXT: during Elizabethan times people believed state of universe could be disturbed with a horrible act, such as the murder of a good king. Chain of Being
  - - - EX. " “There’s no art
        To find the mind’s construction in the face.
        He was a gentleman on whom I built
        An absolute trust.
        (Enter Macbeth, Banquo, Ross and Angus)
        O worthiest cousin!”
        
        Duncan
      - Lady Macbeth:
        EX. “A little water clears us of this deed” (Act II, Scene 2)“What, will these hands ne’er be clean?” (Act V, Scene I)
    - - when a character says something but means the opposite
      - EX. "Tonight we hold a solemn supper, sir / And I'll request your presence"
        
        said to Banquo by Macbeth
        
        Act 3
        
        true nature of Macbeth revealed as he made plans for Banquo to be murdered never even showing up
    - - results of an action or event are different from expected
  - - - Evil deeds are done during the night; in the dark
      - EX. “They have tied me to a stake; I cannot fly / But bear-like I must fight the course”
    - - ‘Washing one’s hands of something’ - of guilt, of the deed
- - - - witches' prophecies provoke Macbeth
      - Lady Macbeth is the brain of the murder
      - Hectate the goddess of witchcraft
      - Manipulation
    - - against society's assumptions of women's behavior
  - - - manipulates by questioning Macbeth's masculinity
      - wish to be "unsexed"
    - - provokes murderers same by questioning manhood
- - - - mysterious and sinister
      - toy with Macbeth
        
        create magical hallucinations EX. the dagger
        
        though could just be Macbeth's imagination leading him to commit murders
      - Macbeth and Banquo both see the witches, are the witches a grand hallucination or puppet-masters of the play
    - - referred to as the 'weird sisters'
    - - EX. "Double, double, toil and trouble / Fire burn and and cauldron bubble" Act 4
      - speak criptiquelly
      - speak one after another
    - - EX. the witches promised Macbeth’s safety
        unless “Great Birnam Wood to high Dunsinane Hill / Shall
        come against him”. However, no one could predict that
        Malcolm and Macduff ’s army soldiers would conceal
        themselves in trees cut from Birnam Wood.
      - are they toying with the humans or are they agents of fate? #
    - - ACT 1
        
        "When shall we three meet again? In thunder, lightning, or in rain?"
        
        "When the hurly-burly's done"
        
        "Fair is foul, and foul is fair"
  - - - initial impression is brave and capable
        
        EX. "like Valor's minion" " sparrows eagles or the hare the lion" ACT 1 Scene 2
      - Physical courage joined with consuming ambition and self doubt
        
        EX. prediction of being kind - joy but turmoil
      - Definition: protagonist of a tragedy in drama
      - Scottish general and thane of Glamis
    - - Witches play on Macbeth's weakness and ambition #
    - - Great warrior but ill equipped to deal with psychological consequences
      - He is fearful, and not, as it turns out, the ‘ideal’ masculine character
    - - speaks in monologues / Soliloquy
    - - “Why should I play the Roman fool,” he asks, “and die / On mine own sword?” (5.10.1–2)
    - - when Macbeth interacts with the witches > his physical courage joined with consuming ambition and tendency
  - - - pushes Macbeth to murder Duncan
        
        questions his manhood to provoke him
      - wishes not to be female at one point
        
        theme of gender and power
        
        she is a masculine soul in feminine body
      - she uses female methods of achieving power; manipulation
        
        women can be as ambitious and cruel as men but society constricts them to pursue them differently
      - after the murder she begins to go mad
        
        she kills her self from guilt
        
        her sensitivity becomes a weakness
    - - Act 1, Scene 5; her second monologue, awaiting Duncan, willing to do whatever to get throne, she is the real steel of the marriage, theme of masculinity > "unsex me"
- - - - "dearest partner of greatness"
        
        Lady macbeth will be his partner in crime
      - "too full of the milk of human kindness"
      - "pour spirits in thine ear"
- - - - James:
        
        His fascination with witchcraft and his pride in his lineage is played into in Macbeth
        
        Scottish lineage > Macbeth pays homage to this
        
        James's family's claim decsended from historical Banquo > witches' prophecy that Banquo will found line of kings
        
        theory of divine right > theme of bad vs good kingship embodied by Macbeth and Duncan
  - - - Divine power - if one part of the chain is destroyed then everything else descends into chaos
- - - - lightning with thunder > create a scary and mysterious mood - the witches
        
        create a setting of storm > turmoil and chaos
        
        lightning foreshadows thunder > foreshadows the prophecies and witches, therefore chaos
      - describes time of day ex. beginning scene 7 act 1 > torches signalling night time
    - - wind and thunder > sign of the witches and turmoil
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