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Macbeth - William Shakespeare - Coggle Diagram
Macbeth -
William Shakespeare
Act 1:
Scene 2:
Scotland is at war. The invaders are led by the rebel Macdonwald. But just as the battle seems lost, Macbeth arrives:
"Like valour's minion carved out his passage Till he faced the slave" "Till he unseam'd him from the nave to the chaps" - Macbeth killed his way to Macdonwald, and then cut him from his navel to his jaw.
Scene 1:
The play opens with three witches gathering amidst thunder and lightening. They plan to meet with Macbeth that evening, 'when the battle's lost and won' at 'the set of sun'. 'Fair is Foul and Foul is Fair' - 'Good is Bad and Bad is Good'
Scene 3:
Macbeth and Banquo meet the witches. 'so foul and fair a day I have not seen' - irony from scene 1. Banquo is the first to remark on the witches' strange appearance.
The witches tell Macbeth: He is Thane of Glamis, Thane of Cawdor, and King.
They tell Banquo that he is lesser but also greater than Macbeth, and that he is not as happy yet much happier than Macbeth, and lastly that his descendants will be kings.
Macbeth tells Banquo that the witches must be right and the best must be yet to come - King. Banquo has his doubts on whether to trust the witches, as they are always seen as bad and evil creatures.
Macbeth questions the witches on how he can be Thane of Cawdor and King as they were both alive, and he was not to inherit the position. However, after the witches disappear, with them both confused, the Thane of cawdor is announced dead, and his position given to Macbeth by the King. The scene ends with two rhyming couplets said by Duncan in favour of Macbeth: "What he hath lost noble Macbeth hath won"
Scene 4:
King Duncan expresses his thanks to Macbeth and Banquo, and tells Macbeth that he will be staying at his house. Macbeth agrees politely and leaves to send his wife a letter.
Scene 5:
Lady Macbeth is introduced in this scene, she receives a letter from Macbeth, explaining her encounter with the witches. She is also informed that King Duncan will be visiting. Immediately she has her mind set on murdering the King, to fulfill the prophecy told by the witches. she suggests to her husband that he is weak and contains to much of the 'milk of human kindness' to commit this murder.
After, she asks the spirits to take away her femininity and thicken her blood, so that nothing comes in the way to stop her from this murder. When Macbeth arrives, Lady Macbeth tell him to 'look like an innocent flower, but be like the snake that hides underneath'. She tells him to leave the rest to her.
Scene 6:
King Duncan arrives at their castle, and Lady Macbeth who, like a chameleon, now takes on the more typical role of perfect hostess.
Scene 7:
Alone, Macbeth ponders the deed that he is about to perform. He is aware of the powerful reasons for murdering the king, but is nagged by self-doubt arising from his fear of punishment both in heaven and on earth and by his likely loss of reputation. However, any such fears are dismissed by his wife in the same way she used in the scene 5 and 6.
Her taunting of her husband's weakness, coupled with the efficiency of her own plan, convince Macbeth that he should fulfill the prophecy. We can see in this scene that Lady Macbeth is clearly in control of this relationship with her husband, and knows where and when to pull the strings on him.
Act 2:
Scene 1:
His mind filled with murder, has a vision of a bloody dagger: "Is this a dagger which i see before me?" - Evil Deception. The dagger seems to beckon Macbeth: "Thou marshall'st me the way that i was going; And such an instrument i was to use." - Fate
He wonders whether what he sees is real or a “dagger of the mind, a false creation / Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain”
Banquo cannot sleep, his mind cannot stop thinking about the witches and their prophecy. When Macbeth enters the scene, he pretends he has given little thought to the witches' prophecy. After Banquo and his son leave, he imagines that he sees a bloody dagger pointing towards Duncan's chamber.
Scene 2:
"Had he not resembled my father as he slept, I had done't" - this phrase shows us a little bit of human kindness/humanity shown from Lady Macbeth, as she was unable to kill Duncan
"I could not say 'Amen' " - Macbeth cannot say 'Amen' because he knows he has acted against God and nature
Lady Macbeth urges Macbeth not to think deeply about the murder: "Theses deeds must not be though after theses ways; so, it will make us mad." - Evil
The phrase "Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood" and "Making the green one red" - implies that nothing can cleanse him from the blood, and also from guilt. We can also infer that he believes that there is enough blood to turn the entire sea red - the guilt will stay with him until his death.