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Macbeth: Act 1 - Coggle Diagram
Macbeth: Act 1
Act 1, Scene 2: wounded sergeant comes back from battle to tell Duncan / audience what has happpened.
Shakespeare represents the character, Macbeth through the opinions of other characters / people.
At the beginning: Macbeth is a universal loved character and through his own actions he's going to ruin everything.
The bloody sergeant describes Macbeth:
'brave'
'he deserves that name'
'smok'd with bloody execution'
-> imagery: brutal, blood-filled and shocking
Macbeth carved a path through the soldiers of the rebel forces, found the rebel leader - Macdonald; and unseemed him from knav to his chaps. -> Macbeth stabbed Macdonald from his belly to his chin, putting his head on a stake.
Scottish nobleman, The Thane of Cawdor, betrayed Scotland and sided with the King of Norway in an attempt to invade. The Scottish nobleman got stripped from his title and then given to Macbeth as a award for his bravery and his loyalty.
-> theme: unloyalty - foreshadows Macbeth change throughout the play.
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Act 1, Scene 1: first time we see the witches
OPENING QUOTES:
'When shall we three meet again'
-> good or evil
-> what will their role be in the play?
-> prompts croisity
Elizabethan times the witches would of been a huge draw for the audience, as there was big interests and beliefs in the witchcraft and supernatural activity.
- Scene opens with thunder and lightning; witches talking about hurley burley in a battle that is lost and won.
- Scene closes leaving the audience confused on what is going to happen.
ENDING QUOTE: 'Fair is foul and foul is fair
Hover through the fog and the futhy air'
-> reinforce the idea of a frightening, mysterious world
STRUCTURE: witches speak in rhyme (rhyming couplets).
-> Noble Characters: Iambic Pentameter
- 5 stressed + 5 unstressed syllables in a line
eg. 'And fixed his head upon our battlements'
-> blankverse
The witches use of rhyming couplets gives a very sinister mood to the play, like a nursery rhyme but darker / full of evil
- Witches have a cat + toad which seen as there pet
Shakespeare expresses the importance of the dark atmosphere and the supernatural to the audience at the start of the play; this shows how these themes will contrast throughout the play.
Act 1, Scene 3: return to the witches
1st Witch: 'Killing swine' (pigs)
-> offended by some woman who wouldn't give her chestnuts, so she made the husbands (sailor) journey over sea rough; because she could control the weather / wind.
The outset the witches says ''I'll drain him duty as hay'
-> foreshadows the change in Macbeth
'Sleep shall neither night nor day, I hang upon his penthouse lid' - won't let the sailor sleep at all -> foreshadows Macbeth's unatural deeds at the end of the play.
Banquo conflicts the character Macbeth (response to witches).
'Neither beg nor fear your favours nor your hate' - not interested
Banquo questions Macbeth when he finds out he'll be King
'Why do you start, and seem to fear things that do sound so far' - this isn't the first time Macbeth has though about being King.
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