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MACBETH: Macbeth - Coggle Diagram
MACBETH: Macbeth
LOYALTY AND BETRAYAL
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He betrays his own sense of right and wrong which eventually leads to his loss of self worth and his death
Macbeth betrays Banquo by sending hitmen to kill him and his son, Fleance, just because they threaten his position as king
GOOD AND EVIL
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Once he has killed King Duncan, Macbeth starts to kill anyone who threatens his position as king.
The contrast between how he is like at the beginning of the play (before he has killed Duncan) to how he is towards the end of the play is massive.
At the beginning of the okay he is "noble" and has potential for greatness, King Duncan sees this potential and makes
Macbeth the Thane of Cawdor.
Once he is tempted to give in to his ambition, Macbeth's goodness is overcome by his evil desires. He then becomes increasingly evil as he becomes hardened to the many crimes he commits.
Struggle for crown of Scotland becomes battle between good + evil. Macbeth = the evil "tyrant" who must be killed before he destroys Scotland.
The play ends with a battle against Macbeth and Malcom. Malcom's men have "dear causes" and fight to "dew the sovereign flower" (restore the rightful king). Macbeth is an "abhorred tyrant" who represents evil
SUPERNATURAL
Act 2 Scene 1- He sees a vision of a dagger just as he's about to kill King Duncan. I is not clear whether it is leading him to kill Duncan or is a warning against doing so. It represents the "bloody business" he's about to do.
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Act 3 Scene 4- He sees Banquo's ghost, which gives him a "strange infirmity". Nobody else can see the ghost, which suggests it's a sign of Macbeth's guilty conscious.
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He most likely would never have turned into the murderous, regicide committing "tyrant" had the witches not told him his fate
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The first time he meets the witches he trusts them straight away, saying "two truths are told", however Banquo is suspicious of them and thinks they want to "win us to our harm"
AMBITION
Macbeth's ambition is what leads him astray. It is his weakness and the witches and Lady Macbeth use this to their advantage.
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He wants to be king of Scotland and will do anything to make this happen, even committing regicide
Has a conscious and often doubts himself and his actions and whether he's doing the right thing (not so much at the end of the play). He feels guilty a lot.
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"I have no spur to prick the sides of my intent, but only vaulting ambition"
KINGSHIP
He suddenly becomes king even though he's not the heir to the throne. This is as Macbeth is next in line after Duncan's sons, Malcolm and Donalbain, but as he framed them for their father's death Macbeth became king.
He is rarely referred to as "king" which shows that the other characters don't accept him as the true king
He is described as a "tyrant" because he rules selfishly, using violence.
His unlawful in the overturned natural order- e.g. day turns to night and the horses eat each other. This is as he has disrupted the great chain of being. This contrasts to Duncan's reign when the country is ordered and peaceful.
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