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Macbeth - Coggle Diagram

- - - - "If chance may have me King, why, chance may have me, without my stir."
        
        allowing it to come "naturally"
        
        allows the audience to believe in Macbeth's loyalty to the crown
      - "My thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical"
        
        his first through of regicide
        
        audience would've blamed the witches
        
        dual nature (both true and false)
        
        emphasizes his confusion
        
        ambiguous intent
    - - "Stars, hide your fires"
        
        stars told fate
        
        emphasizes his decision to control his own fate
        
        theme of control, power
        
        disparity between Duncan and Macbeth
        
        reveals his intimate disappointment
        
        audience sees his hamartia (desire to be king)
        
        use of the aside
  - - - "...who should against his murderer shut the door, not bear the knife myself."
        
        afraid of retribution
        
        complex response from Macbeth & the audience
      - soliloquy
        
        fast pace
        
        euphemistic
        
        creates a sense of unease
      - "ingredients of our poison'd chalice"
        
        feminine stereotype of cooking
        
        Macbeth's emotional state
        
        steps to the murder
      - audience is supposed to believe he's an emotional and ambiguous character who cant understand his emotions
      - "Screw your courage to the sticking place and we'll not fail."
        
        frightening
        
        unfamiliar to come from a woman
        
        Lady Macbeth holds the power currently
- - - - rid of her femininity
      - suggests she cannot be truly evil YET as she still possesses some feminine qualities
      - views her femininity as an obstacle
        
        highlights her ambition to become queen
      - determined
    - - superlative "direst"
      - desire to be completely evil
      - willing to do this for her own ambition of becoming queen
    - - wants to be braver
      - believes that her femininity prevented her from killing Duncan
    - - theme of the supernatural
      - "come" shows her willingness and desire for her femininity to be eradicated from her body
  - - - imperative "out"
      - wants to be freed of her guilt
      - she is stained
        
        constant tormenting by her sin
      - she has lost the control she had previously in the play as she has been overcome by her fear, only fueled by Macbeth's reckless actions
    - - repetition
        
        allows her to feel a sense of control in her words whilst despairing over her guilty conscience
      - sense of realisation
    - - ironic as previously she told Macbeth that "a little water clears us of this deed"
      - feminine use of perfumes suggest she has lost that masculine power she called for
      - "little" suggests vulnerable - she sees herself in a feminine light at this point in the play
  - - - derogatory
      - shows her cold-hearted nature
      - questioning his masculinity makes Macbeth want to prove it - Shakespeare draws on the audience's religious belief of original fear to compel the audience to view Lady Macbeth as the true evil that turns Macbeth
    - - repetition highlights how it is too late
      - trying to comfort Macbeth for personal gain
        
        takes control and seems to be the dominant one in the relationship
    - - questioning, mocking tone adopted
      - questions Macbeth's masculinity multiple times
      - highlights her desires to be a man to have the power that a woman would never be able to have
        
        emphasizes her innate desire for power
      - audience sees Macbeth as weak
- - - - "when you durst do it, then you were a man"
        
        questioning his masculinity makes Macbeth want to prove it - Shakespeare draws on the audience's religious belief of original fear to compel the audience to view Lady Macbeth as the true evil that turns Macbeth as she doesn't conform to stereotypical gender roles
      - "And live a coward in thine own esteem"
        
        wants Macbeth to "prove his manhood" by murdering Duncan
  - - - "Yet I do fear thy nature; it is too full o' the milk of human kindness"
        
        Lady Macbeth fears her husband is too compassionate to kill Duncan
        
        "milk" conjures a feminine image that is maternal and nurturing
        
        Macbeth is not totally evil at this point
  - - - "You should be women, and yet your beards forbid me to interpret that you are so"