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MACBETH - Coggle Diagram

- - - - social outcasts women belonged inside where they could be controlled
      - a place which facilitates rebellion
    - - directly connected with the devil
        
        DISRUPTION and overthrow of order
    - - they will reappear
      - they are planning the future
        
        systematic way
        
        they have foreknowledge
    - - direct connection with witches being the cause of harm
    - - the witches have their victim
      - focus of the play
      - uneasy association that the main character is introduced by witches
        
        the tragic hero of the play does not always come on straight away
    - - to use ambiguous language in order to avoid commiting to one side of an argument
      - example
        
        when the battle's lost and won
        
        fair is foul and foul is fair
    - - shakespeare is tapping into the belief that witches can fly
    - - links to the outcast
    - - a sense of paradox
        
        overturning and inversion of our expectactations
      - nothing is what it seems
        
        don't believe 'nice' or 'nasty' things
        
        don't trust surface appearances e.g Lady Macbeth
  - - - ecophony
        
        the witches saying when the battle's lost and won
        
        shows supernatural is powerful
        
        witches effect everything; even something that is put their by God
    - - rebelled against Duncan
        
        civil war- act of treason
        
        Macbeth and Banquo are fighting to protect Duncan's throne-loyal warriors
        
        with Norwegian assistance
      - Duke Lord-Scottish aristocrat
        
        traitor and a threat
    - - classical, medieval hero
        
        must be seen this way at the start
    - - arrogant
      - setting his own agenda
    - - excess of violence
        
        Macbeth AND Banquo
    - - an excess to Macbeth's violence
      - revelation of his character
    - - in his report the captain presents Mactbeth as a brave and loyal fighter BUT he is also shown as arrogant and overly violent
      - in his report the captain presents Macbeth as a brave and loyal fighter so that the latter description of his excessive violence is shadowed by his greatness
    - - links to when the battle's lost and won
      - a mouthpiece of God is saying the same thing as the witches
        
        shows how the belief in witches is universal through classes
  - - - she is not powerful enough to shipwreck a boat
      - Macbeth is still responsible for his fate
    - - unwittingly repeats
      - echoing the witches
        
        audience feels unease
        
        linguistic connections with figures and fear
      - M hasn't heard the witches say this but the audience have
        
        DRAMATIC IRONY
        
        when the audience know more than the characters on stage
    - - not civilised
      - clothes
    - - physical description
        
        hairy
        
        outcasts different from other women
    - - what he was, what he is, what he will be
    - - they are showing respect to Macbeth but also saying it because hants to hear it, making him listen to them.
    - - an equivalent character, facing a similar situation but responds differently
      - both are being told their future at the same time to make it more chaotic
    - - the witches are not imperfect speakers
        
        they are telling the truth
      - Macbeth is an imperfect hearer
    - - pretending to be amazed
      - a metaphor that Shakespeare comes back to over and over again
      - the idea of pretending
        
        this time with clothes
      - links to tem never properly wearing the king and queen role
        
        they are not meant for them so it does not suit them
    - - already keeping secrets from his best friend
    - - there's much virtue in the word
      - comes up throughout the play
    - - he's changing all the time
      - is there such a thing as chance?
        
        one of Shakespeare's major questions in the play
      - he has been set up as a hero
        
        he now has been told he will be king
      - he might not have to do anything
        
        if he might not have to do anything why change it
  - - - yet do I fear thy nature, it is too full o'th'milk of human kindness
        
        why
        
        its interesting that Shakespeare has portrayed Lady Macbeth as doubting her husband the first time we see and hear her because in that time women were not allowed to have an opinion of her husband (other than love) and yet here LM is speaking negatively about her husband and demoting him to the 'woman' of the house
        
        what
        
        she is scared that Macbeth is too kind and is not brave enough to kill Duncan to become king
        
        how
        
        Lady Macbeth has just done this whole soliloquy about what the witches have promised them and she already doubts his ability, before even talking to him about it
        
        almost makes the audience feel that she is taking on the role of being the man of the house and Macbeth is the women
      - that croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan under my battements
        
        what
        
        the arrival of duncan to their castle marks Duncan's murder
        
        how
        
        the use of the adjective croaks could be Shakespeare's way of describing Duncan
        
        the croak could symbolise his age- as people get older their voice gets croaky
        
        it could also symbolise his weakness
        
        croak is liked with frogs who are weak creatures with no defense
        
        why
        
        its interesting because Shakespeare could be talking about two different things- Duncan's weakness and age OR
      - and shalt be what thou art promised
        
        what
        
        saying that Macbeth will be what the witches promise
        
        how
        
        her instant belief gives the audience a sense of warning of her and perhaps a link to dark magic/the witches
        
        why
        
        the fact that Lady Macbeth instantly believes what the witches say, even though she wasn't their
      - but without the illness should attend it
        
        what
        
        Macbeth is not evil enough
        
        how
        
        illness- LM sees it as an illness that he should be evil and yet she is thinking about the exact same thing
        
        because she instantly thinks about they same thing as M- that they will have to kill D to get to the crown
      - unsex me here
        
        what
        
        she wants to be a man and have the powers that men have so she can kill D
        
        how
        
        the dark thought that LM has disturbs the audience and gives them another warning that something is not right with her
        
        why
        
        that she wants to gain a mans power and lose her gender to commit regicide
  - - - the exterior of the castle is portraying a different image to the actual reality of the castle
      - dramatic irony
        
        we know the conversation that has just happened between M and LM
    - - great irony here as we know what is going to happen
    - - dramatic irony
    - - dramatic irony
        
        we know that
      - to pray constantly
      - Lady Macbeth's duplicity and hypocrisy
    - - act 1 scene 4 page 19 line 11-14
  - - - links with the witches and how they are social outcasts
    - - it
        
        he can't even bring himself to name it
      - poisoned chalice
        
        irony that he thinks that if he kills the king for himself to become king then others may do the same to him
      - his reasons for not killing Duncan
        
        so clear in his great office
        
        he already sees his leadership as a good one
        
        why take that away
        
        moment of respect
        
        moral man
        
        his subject
        
        he should be loyal to his king
        
        i have no spur
        
        he lacks the wish to do it
        
        powered o n by Lady Macbeth
        
        his host
        
        you should protect your guests
        
        references to God
        
        he has been appointed by God
        
        goes against all religious beliefs
        
        his speech is not finished
      - the soliloquy
        
        provides an insight into inner thoughts
        
        when the tragic hero dies we are meant to pity and fear him
        
        this gives us an emotional connection with him
        
        we have to have cared about him
        
        aristotle
        
        encouraging audience's sympathy with the tragic hero
        
        usually only given to the tragic hero
    - - goes against the expectations of jacobean women
        
        deferential
        
        LM- forthright, direct and confrontational
    - - questioning his masculinity
    - - iambic pentameter
        
        symbol of their closeness- either lover or scheming together
        
        19 syllable lines
    - - fighting back his manhood
        
        emasculating him
    - - infanticide
      - linking with dark magic
        
        witches use dead babies
        
        shows she has a dark side
    - - change in tone from attack to planning to reassurance
      - this gets him on her side
      - changing of the pronouns demonstrates passing of responsibility
    - - what the witches were saying Macbeth is now saying
- - - - links to the belief that they were "everywhere"
  - - - is he a strong or weak King
    - - people want to stay in his "good books"
    - - is he a strong or weak King