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Macbeth, "Temple" -> sacred where God's presence dwells +…

- - - - "he was a gentleman whom id built an absolute trust" dramatic irony & foreshadows Macbeth's regicide
  - - - "valiant cousin"
        
        good in battle - characteristics of a good leader
      - "brave Macbeth"
      - "bellona's bridegroom"
    - - Macbeth loses his good characteristics when he decides to kill king Duncan, in order to success the throne. "dead butcher"
- - - - Lady macbeths commands hold no power + "spot" as a physical mark of he guilt
    - - Deed = euphemism for murder - diminishes their actions
    - - Mimics Macbeths earlier statement - inevitability of guilt
  - - - Synedoche - Macbeth's conscience and mind is the "eye" and his actions and reality are the "hand"
      - Macbeth wishes for the action to be done but doesn't want his conscience to witness it
    - - "Neptune" - addressing other God - Excommunicated - rejects Christian God
    - - By killing Duncan Macbeth has removed peace and order from his life - "sleep" symbolises peace
- - - - "What, does the devil speak true?"
        
        rhetorical question - skeptical of witches - morally pure
        
        addresses them as "devil" recognises where they come from - witches viewed as servants to devil- audience views him as morally
      - "Instruments of the darkness tell us truths"
      - "Have we eaten from the insane root"
    - - "foul and fair a day I have not seen"
        
        echoes witches - already influence by supernatural - audience immediately link with supernatural - Foreshadow connection
        
        "foul" before "fair" already leaning towards side of disorder
      - "stay you imperfect speakers tell me more"
        
        imperative - already intriguied by supernatural - potentially foeshadow reliance on supernatural and their prophecies e.g. birnam wood
        
        "imperfect speakers" - equivocators - false prophecies - foreshadows his downfall for relying on prohpeicies
      - "Is this a dagger I see before me"
        
        Supernatural influecning him
    - - "Fill me from the crown to the toe topfull of direst of cruelty"
        
        Calling upon supernatural spirits for power
      - "Unsex me here"
      - "fiend-like queen"
    - - Trochaic tetrameter - chant like - constrasts noble characters who speak in iambic pentameter
      - "fair is foul and foul is fair" - chiasmus
        
        Reversal of typical morals - not to be trusted
  - - - Wrote a book called "Demonologie" on witches
      - Believed he suffered an attempted asasination attempt from Witches
      - Witches were believed to be real
- - - - METAPHOR - Ambition presented as an uncontrollable force
        
        ADJECTIVE - 'Vaulting' implies ambition is an overreaching force that drives Macbeth beyond God-ordained moral limits
        
        damages his propriety
        
        self-awareness of his tragic flaw /hamartia
    - - METAPHOR
        
        entrenched in his violent deeds he cannot escape his guilt
        
        lengths to which M has gone to achieve his ambition his desire for power has led him down a dark path
        
        His Machiavellian resolve to maintain his reign at any cost
      - wading through river
    - - "so be it" in Hebrew - cannot ask for anything because of his great sin
    - - insomnia - erratical and tyrannical behavior
    - - IMAGERY LIGHT VS DARK
        -reveals moral corruption before murder
        
        light vs dark = goodness/god and darkness/secrcy/sin
        
        internal conflict can be seen as a spiritual battle between light and dark
        
        theme resonates with 'DAEMONOLOGIES'
        
        warning against succumbing to temptation/supernatural
- - - - ACT 2 "Is this a dagger I see before me"
        
        Supernatural vs Manifestation of ambition
        
        Bloody dagger: Macbeth's guilt takes visual form when he hallucinates that a blood-covered dagger is leadin
      - ACT 3- 'And make our faces vizards to our hearts, Disguising what they are'
      - 'Out, out, brief candle'
        
        Analysis: Macbeth reveals his disillusionment with the reality he has created which contrasts with the appearance of power he sought to exert as king
    - - Sleeps and dreams
        
        ACT 5 SCENE 1
        
        "Out damned spot"
        
        'Spot' refers to the curse demons and witches bestow onto those they make contracts(?) with / sign of L Macbeth's permanent evil nature
        
        "Will these hands never be clean"
        
        Contradiction of her previous statement as she regarded ''
        
        "To bed, to bed there's knocking at the gate"
        
        'knocking at gate' as a direct reference to Macduff and the army
        
        give me your hand, whats done cannot be undone to be to bed
        
        CAN ALSO LINK THE THEME ON CONSEQUENCES OF CORRUPT POWER AND STRUGGLE THAT COMES WITH IT
      - Speaking in prose to show unstability mentally and how she doesn't have power anymore (how servants would have spoken in) she's not as composed and powerful as she was at start of play when she was speaking in blank verse/iambic pentameter (how royalty would have spoken)
      - "Look like an innocent flower but be the serpent underneath"
        (Act 1)
        
        "Be innocent of the knowledge, dearest chuck"
        (Act 3, Scene 2)
        
        Trickery - juxtaposition
        
        "Serpent" - religious connotations - devil tricks adam and even with apples
    - - 'Macbeth shall never vanquished be until Great Birnam Wood to High Dunsinane... Shall come against him
        
        Context: The witches prophecy enables Macbeth to feel invincible but the reality is misleading: it plays to his ambition while hiding the truth -Shakespeare portrays the witches as purposefully ambiguous leading Macbeth to misinterpret them
      - Fair is foul, and foul is fair'
        
        introduces the theme of deception from the very beginning of the play and Macbeth misinterpreting the witches as a result of their ambiguity
      - Equivocators -> Half truths