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Macbeth Mindmap Motifs Revision - Coggle Diagram
Macbeth Mindmap Motifs Revision
Bravery
"for brave Macbeth (well he deserves that name). Disdaining Fortune, with his brandish'd steel"
Steel is used as a metonym representing his sword
Brave and prepared to fight against fate or fortune
Clothing
"New honours come upon him, like our strange garments, cleave not to their mould, but with the aid of use"
New honours are like new clothes
They will take a while to cleave or hang until worn for a while
Trust
There is no art to find the mind's construction in the face: he was a gentleman on whom I built an absolute trust
Malcolm later in the play corrects Duncan's flaw of trusting others
Ambition
"Thou wouldst be great, art not without ambition, but without the illness should attend it"
Niccolo Machiavelli said that to be a good ruler you must first be ruthless (The Prince)
Cause and Effect
"If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere well It were done quickly: if the assassination Could trammel up the consequence, and catch With his surcease success"
Macbeth wants to kill the king quickly so the consequences of which are metaphorically caught in the net to have the benefits without responsibility
Macbeth is reluctant to be ruthless
Supernatural Visions
"Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee. I have thee not, and yet I see thee still"
Macbeth interprets this as a sign that supernatural forces are wanting him to commit the murder
Irreversible effects
"Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood clean from my hand? No, this my hand will rather the multitudinous seas incarnadine, making the green one red"
The blood of the king would stain the oceans a crimson red colour
Lady Macbeth is filled with guilt showing contrast to the beginning of the play
Unnatural
"Tis unnatural, Even like the deed that's done. On Tuesday last, A falcon, tow'ring in her pride of place, 15 Was by a mousing owl hawk'd at and kill'd"
Bird imagery
The reverse of what would happen
A falcon would normally be much more powerful than an owl
Paranoia
"To be thus is nothing; But to be safely thus"
He feels he needs to protect himself from anyone who may kill him
Tyrany
"What, all my pretty chickens and their dam/At one fell swoop?"
Bird of prey idea suggested again