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GCSE MACBETH - Coggle Diagram

- - - - he is willing to commit regicide and murder his close friend to become and remain scotland's king. he values his title greatly.
      - "stars, hide your fires / let not light see my black and deep desires"
    - - he cannot commit himself to killing king duncan
      - his wife belittles and bullies him into doing what she wants
      - his ambition and morality conflict with one another, making him indecisive and susceptible to his wife's manipulation
      - "oh full of scorpions is my mind" - macbeth
        "infirm of purpose!" - lady macbeth
    - - "for brave macbeth- well he deserves that name" - wounded soldier
      - he is a mighty warrior and a great leader to his troops
      - faces macduff in combat, knowing that he will die
      - feels guilty and hallucinates banquo's ghost after having him killed- seems to want to undo it, but is caught in a spiral of evil
    - - "he unseamed him from the nave to the chaps"
      - kills his king in cold blood
  - - - "look like the innocent flower, but be the serpent under it"
      - plants the idea of regicide in macbeth's head
      - persuades him to go through with killing king duncan when he falters and begins to have reservations about their plan
      - "o, never shall sun that morrow see!"
      - "take my milk for gall"
    - - commands the spirits in act 1 scene 5
        
        "fill me from the crown to the toe top-full of direst cruelty!"
        
        "unsex me here!" "make thick my blood!"
      - tells macbeth "leave all the rest to me" when he doubts their plot
      - "screw your courage to the sticking-place, and we'll not fail"
    - - emasculates macbeth
        
        "art thou afeared?"
        
        "are you a man?"
      - she says that if she had made such a promise to him about the very child she was nursing, she would have dashed it's brain against the wall rather than break the oath she had sworn by
    - - she ends up going mad and killing herself because
        she's unable to bear the weight on her conscience
      - "out, damned spot!"
      - "what, will these hands never be clean?" / "all the
        perfumes of arabia could not sweeten this little hand"
  - - - is the first to suspect macbeth's involvement, leading to his own death
      - hesitant to trust the witches
        
        "the instruments of darkness tell us truths; / win us with honest trifles, to betray's / in deepest consequence."
    - - the witches prophecise that his children would also be king one day, yet he doesn't immediately turn to betrayal like his friend did, remaining a servant to the king until his death
      - when attacked, he first thinks to save his son
  - - - discoveres the bodies of the king and his guards
      - aids malcolm, the rightful ruler, in usurping macbeth's throne and ending his tyrannic reign over scotland
    - - battles and beheads macbeth to avenge his murdered family
      - refuses to mourn his family by crying for them or lamenting about them without first exacting revenge on the one who killed them
  - - - "double, double, toil and trouble; / fire burn, and cauldron bubble."
      - religious symbolism- god (and his chosen kings) are good, witches evil
    - - trick macbeth with the self-fulfilling prophecy without hecate's approval
      - intentionally ambiguous
        
        "fair is foul and foul is fair"
        
        "no man of woman born / shall harm macbeth" - macduff was not born naturally, but rathher via caesarean section (ripped from the womb)
        
        "take no care... great birnam wood to high dunsinane hill / shall come against him." - the attacking army hides their numbers behind tree branches, thereby moving the forest