William Shakespeare

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William Shakespeare
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Characters

• Macbeth
• Lady Macbeth
• The Witches
• Banquo
• Macduff
• Duncan
• Malcolm and Donalbain

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Macbeth

• Brave Macbeth
• Black Macbeth
• Greed
• Disloyalty
• Murder
• Tyranny
• Morality
• Malleability
• Tragic Hero
• Tragic Villain

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Character of Macbeth
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Quotes

• Sergeant brave Macbeth
• Duncan O valiant cousin! Worthy gentleman
• Macbeth to the Witches why do you dress me in
  borrowd robes?( clothing imagery)

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• Macbeth that is a step on which I must fall
  down, or else oerleap, for in my way it lies.
  Stars, hide your fires let not light see my dark
  and deep desires.

• If chance will have me King, why, chance may
  crown me, without my stir. (Fate/ Chance)

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• We will proceed no further in this business
  (conscience)
• Lady M Yet I do fear thy nature It is too full
  o the milk of human kindness to catch the
  nearest way- (Ms good nature, Lady ms
  manipulative nature)
• Macbeths conscience First, as I am his kinsman
  and his subject, strong both against the deed,
  then, as his host Who should against the murderer
  shut the door Not bear the knife myself.

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• Macduff Not in the legions of horrid hell can
  come a devil more damned in evils to top Macbeth.

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Macbeth the Murderer.
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• False face must hide what the false heart doth
  know.(appearances v reality)
• Is this a dagger I see before me/ The handle
  toward my hand
• Macbeth does murder sleep- the innocent sleep
  (conscience)
• Macbeth shall sleep no more (conscience)
• To know my deed twere best not know myself.
• Lifes but a walking shadow, a poor player/ That
  struts and frets his hour upon the stage/ And
  then is heard no more.

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Lady Macbeth

• Manipulator
• Murderess
• Greed
• Femininity?
• Hatred
• Capacity for cruelty
• Guilt
• Self-destructive

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I have given suck, and know How tender 'tis to
love the babe that milks me I would, while it
was smiling in my face, Have plucked my nipple
from his boneless gums, And dash'd the brains
out, had I so sworn as you Have done to
this.Macbeth, 1. 7
Screw your courage to the sticking-place,And
we'll not fail. Macbeth, 1. 7
Lady Macbeth Things without all remedyShould be
without regard what's done is done.Macbeth We
have scotched the snake, not killed itShe'll
close and be herself, while our poor
maliceRemains in danger of her former
tooth.Macbeth, 3. 2
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Character of Lady Macbeth
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The Three Witches
What are theseSo wither'd and so wild in their
attire,That look not like the inhabitants o' the
earth,And yet are on 't? Macbeth, 1. 3
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Quotes from the Witches/ Apparitions

• Fair is foul, and foul is fair
• All hail, Macbeth, that shalt be king
  hereafter!
• beware Macduff(Armed Head)
• none of woman born shall harm Macbeth (bloody
  child)
• Great Birnan wood to high Dunsinane Hill Shall
  coma against him. (Crowned child)
• Thou shalt get kings, though thou be none. (to
  Banquo)

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Macbeth and Banquo meet The Weird Sisters
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The Witches
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Themes

• Good v Evil
• Appearances v Reality
• Loyalty v Betrayal
• Order v Chaos
• Kingship/ Power
• Violence
• Action v Inaction
• Fate v Chance
• The supernatural

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The struggle between Good and Evil
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Appearance and Reality
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Appearances V Reality
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Quotes

• Let not light see my black and deep desires.
• False face must hide what the false heart doth
  know.(Macbeth)

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Kingship/ Power
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Fate V Chance?
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Motifs/ Images

• Water
• Manhood
• Clothing
• Animal imagery
• Light and Darkness
• Reversals in natural order
• Heaven and Hell

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Imagery/ Symbolism

• Bad weather signals entrance of evil in the play-
  Thunder and lightning, fog for witches- storm on
  the night of Duncans death- twas a rough
  night
• Lennox Lamentings heard i the air, strange
  screams of death.
• Lady M. Look like the innocent flower, but be
  the serpent undert. (Animal/nature)
• Let not light see my black and deep
  desires.(light v darkness, good v evil)

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• A little water clears us of this deed ( Lady M)
• Will al great Neptunes ocean wash this blood
  clean from my hand? No, this my hand will rather
  the multitudinous seas incarnadine, making the
  green one red. ( reversal of nature- water will
  only turn red and not cleanse him of his sins)
• It is an accustomed action with her to be seen
  thus washing her hands.( water and innocence)
• That darkness does the face of earth entomb When
  living life should kiss it?
• a falcon towering in her pride of place was by a
  mousing owl hawked at and killed.( animal
  imagery/ reversals in nature)
• O full of scorpions is my mind

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• Though you untie the winds and let them fight
  against the churches (turning Nature against
  religion and humanity)
• Macduffs wife for the poor wren, the most
  diminutive of birds, will fight, her young ones
  in her nest, against the owl.