Urata 8th 2025 MASTER Macbeth Themes ALL ACTS by Carla Urata

Focus Question

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Which character(s) is/are superstitious in the play and what is the outcome/result of that attribute?

Chiasmus

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"'Fair is foul and foul is fair'" (Shakespeare 1.1.12)

Focus Question

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Which characters have the most ambition in the play and what is their fate?

Focus Question

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Who experiences guilt and why? What happens to these characters?

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What impact does fear have on characters in the play?

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Who lusts for power and what does that lead to?

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Who attempts to control destiny in the play and what happens as a result?

Focus Questions

curata — 2025-02-06 16:57:52 UTC

Think about the results of loyalty (or lack thereof) in the play. Consider:

Those who show loyalty to other characters in the play and the outcome of that.

Those who show loyalty to their principles in the play and their outcome/fate.

Macbeth questions his loyalty to King Duncan

curata — 2025-02-06 16:57:52 UTC

"If good, why do I yield to that suggestion, Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair And make my seated heart knock at my ribs Against the use of nature? Present fears Are less than horrible imaginings. My thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical, Shakes so my single state of man that function Is smothered in surmise, and nothing is, But what is not" (1.2.142-155).

Macbeth

2025-02-06 21:58:11 UTC

"If good, why do I yield to that suggestion. Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair. And make my seated heart knock at my ribs. Against the use of nature? Present fears. Are less than horrible imaginings. My thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical,Shakes so my single state of man
That function is smothered in surmise And nothing is but what is not." (1.3.147-155)

Macbeth

2025-02-06 21:58:16 UTC

"I'll go no more. I am afraid to think what I have done. Look on't again I dare not."

( 2.2. 65-67)

Lady Macbeth

2025-02-06 21:59:31 UTC

"All our service, In every point twice done and then done double." Act 1, Scene 6, lines 19-20

malcolm

2025-02-06 22:00:32 UTC

"This murderous shaft that's shot hath not yet lighted, and our safest way is to avoid the aim."(2.3.167-169)

Macbeth

2025-02-06 22:00:46 UTC

"I am afraid to think what I have done.Look on't again I dare not."(Act 2 Scene 2 line 66-67)

Alliteration, Personification

2025-02-06 22:01:06 UTC

"For in my way it lies. Stars, hide your fires; Let not see my black and deep desires. (Shakespeare Act 1 Scene 4)

Macbeth

2025-02-06 22:01:09 UTC

"Glamis hath murdered sleep, and therefore Cawdor shall sleep no more"

Allusion

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"Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood Clean from my hand? No, this my hand will rather The multitudinous seas incarnadine, Making the green one red." (Shakespeare 2.2.78-81)

Macbeth

2025-02-06 22:04:16 UTC

"Stars, hides your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires"

(1.4.50-51).

Macbeth is named the "Thane of Cawdor"

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"Who was the Thane lives yet, but under heavy judgment bears that life which he deserves to lose."(1.3.116-118)

Macbeth

2025-02-06 22:04:42 UTC

"why do I yield to that suggestion whose horrid image doth unfix my hair and make my seated heart knock at my ribs" (Act 1, pg 23)

Paradox

2025-02-06 22:04:55 UTC

"No more that Thane of Cawdor shall deceive Our bosom interest. Go, Pronounce his present death, and with his former title greet Macbeth." (1.3.73-76)

Macbeth

2025-02-06 22:06:35 UTC

"I could not say 'Amen' When they did say 'God bless us.'"

(2.2.39-40)

Macbeth

2025-02-06 22:06:46 UTC

"When shall we three meet again? In thunder, lightning, or in rain? When the hurly-burly's done, When the battles lost and won." 1.1. 7

metaphor

2025-02-06 22:09:45 UTC

"Art not without ambition, but without the illness should attend it (Shakespeare 1.5.19)

Macbeth

2025-02-26 21:45:33 UTC

"lay on, Macduff, And damned be him that first cries "Hold! Enough!"(line 38-39, act 5 scene 8)

Macbeth

2025-02-26 21:46:37 UTC

"Till Burnham wood remove to Dunsinane I cannot taint with fear. What's the boy Malcolm? Was he not born of women? The spirits that know all mortal consequence have pronounced me thus "Fear not, Macbeth. No man born of women shall e'ver have power up on thee"" (5.3.1-5.)

Metaphor

mmarshall8619 — 2025-02-26 21:46:49 UTC

"Out damned spot, out, I say!... Yet who would have thought the old man to have so much blood in him?" (5, 1, 37-42)

Lady Macbeth tries to get an invisible spot off her hands, presumably a blood spot. It is a metaphor for her inability to clear her guilty conscious.

Macbeth

2025-02-26 21:47:20 UTC

"I'll go no more. I am afraid to think what I have done. Look on 't again I dare not." (Act 2 scene 2 , Page 59 - lines 65-67

Second witch

2025-02-26 21:48:04 UTC

"By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes" (4.1.44-45)

Macbeth's fear of his wife pushes him to make bad decisions

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"Art thou afraid to be in thine own cat and valor as thou are in desire? Wouldst thou have that which two esteems the ornament of life and lie a conary in thine own esteem, letting "I dare not" wait upon"I would'' like the poor cat I"

"I have done the deed. Didst thou nt hear a noise?"

(1.2.39-45)

(2.2.15)

Macbeth

2025-02-26 21:48:14 UTC

"The castle of Macduff I will surprise, seize upon Fife, give to th' edge o' th' sword his wife, his babes, and all unfortunate souls that trace him in his line." 4.1.171-174

Macbeth tries to control his own destiny.

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Macbeth: "My dearest love, Duncan comes here tonight."

Lady Macbeth: "And when goes hence?"

Macbeth: "Tomorrow, as he purposes."

(1.6.68-70)

Lady Macbeth

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Art thou afeard To be the same in thine own act and valor as thou art in desire? wouldst though have that which thou esteem'st the ornament of like and live a coward in thine own esteem. (1.7.43-47)

Macbeth

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"Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood clean from my hand?"

( 2.2.79-80)

Macbeth

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Macbeth follows the witches path, "If chance have me king, why, chance may crown me." (P.25, 157-158.) Macbeth dies after trying so hard, "[They enter fighting, and Macbeth is slain,] (P.187, play directions before line 40.)

Macbeth

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"Let fall thy blade on vulnerable crests; I bear a charmed life, which must not yield To one of woman born." (5.8.14-16)

Malcolm

2025-02-26 21:50:00 UTC

"There would be hands uplifted in my right; And here from gracious England have I offer off goodly thousands. But, for all this, When I shall tread upon that Tyrants head..."

(4.3.52-55)

Macbeth, Fearing The Prophecy

2025-02-26 21:50:24 UTC

"That lies like truth 'Fear not till Birnam Wood do come to Dunsinane'... At least we'll die with harness on our back."

(Act 5, Scene 5, 50-59)

Lady Macbeth

2025-02-26 21:50:24 UTC

"Come, you spirits that tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, and fill me from crown to toe top-full with the direst cruelty."(1.5.47-50)

Macbeth

2025-02-26 21:50:34 UTC

"To make them kings, the seeds of Banquo kings. Rather than so, come fate into the list, and champion me to th' utterance." (3.1.75-77)

macbeth

2025-02-26 21:50:54 UTC

"thou know'st that Banquo and his Fleance lives."act 3 sc2 line 42

Macbeth

2025-02-26 21:51:08 UTC

"For Banquo's issue have I filed my mind; For them the gracious Duncan have I murdered,"

(3.1.70-71)

Macduff

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"Behold where stands Th' usurper's cursed head. The time is free I see thee compassed with thy kingdom's pearl."(5.8.65-67)

Macbeth

2025-02-26 21:51:56 UTC

"Then live, Macduff, what need i fear of thee? But yet I'll make assurance double sure And take a bond of fate. Thou shalt not live, That I may tell pale-hearted fear it lies, And sleep in spite of thunder." (Shakespeare 4.1.93-97)

Macbeth relying on the prophecy

2025-02-26 21:52:38 UTC

"As easy mayst thou the intrenchant air With thy keen sword impress as make me bleed. Let thy blade on vulnerable crest; I bear a charmed life, which must not yield To one of woman born." (5.18.12-16)

Macbeth betrays Duncan

2025-02-26 21:53:54 UTC

"He's here in double trust: First, as I am his kinsman and his subject, strong both against the deed; then, as his host, who should against his murder shut the door, Not bear the knife myself."

Macbeth

2025-02-26 21:58:09 UTC

¨ And though I could with barefaced power sweep him from my sight and bid my will avouch it, yet I must not, for certain friends that are both his and mine, whose loves I may not drop, but wail his fall who I myself struck down.¨ (3.1.134-139)

Macbeth, Paranoid About What Will Become of His Future (character development)

2025-02-26 22:02:56 UTC

"Our fears in Banquo stick deep, and in his royalty of nature reigns that which would be feared." (3.1.53-55)

He's scared because he thinks Banquo is like a threat now. This is also when he starts getting nervous and wanting to kill like everyone.