Eng Macbeth Formative by Jacqueline Cheng

Eng Macbeth Formative by Jacqueline Cheng https://padlet.com/jacquelinec2113/9txw9u4pgs93 Topic 3 en-us 2019-03-04 02:55:11 UTC 2026-02-18 21:12:27 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Ninja.png Track how the themes of masculinity/femininity, power, and ambition are shown through language in Act 1 and Act 2 wangjacqueline0 https://padlet.com/jacquelinec2113/9txw9u4pgs93/wish/337326325
Think about:
what are key images linked to each theme? How does the language (diction,
syntax, metaphor, simile etc.) create effect? How do these themes develop
over the course of Act 1 and 2?]]> 2019-03-04 03:10:36 UTC https://padlet.com/jacquelinec2113/9txw9u4pgs93/wish/337326325 Act 1 Scene 4-7 kayla01px2020 https://padlet.com/jacquelinec2113/9txw9u4pgs93/wish/337327163 Masculinity
"Unsex me here
and fill me from the crown to the toe topfull
of direst cruelty; make thick my blood,
stop up th'accessand passage to remorse" (I, v, 39-42)
- Lady Macbeth asks spirits to take away her femininity and give her more masculine features so she can murder the king
"I dare do all that may become a man;
Who dares do more is none." (I, vii, 46-47
-Macbeth "I am the manliest man
- provoked by Lady Macbeth who called him a coward
Femininity

Power
"Besides, this Duncan
Hath borne his faculties so meek, hath been
So clear in his great office, that his virtues
Will plead like angels, trumpet-tongued, against
The deep damnation of his taking-off;" (I, vii, 16-20)
-Macbeth says Duncan is a good king but is meek and a kingdom cannot last long with a meek king
- Macbeth rationalizing killing Duncan
Ambition
"that is a step
On which I must fall down, or else o'erleap" (I,iv, 9-10)
-Macbeth recognizes that he must act on the witches prophecy or he will not become king.
"Yet do I fear thy nature;
It is too full o' th' milk of human kindness
To catch the nearest way. Thou wouldst be great,
Thou wouldst be great
Art not without ambition, but without
The illness should attend it" (I, v, 16-17)
"Hie thee hither,
That I may pour my spirits in thine ear
And chastise with the valoor of my tongue
All that impedes thee from the golden round,
Which fate and metaphysical aid doth seem
To have thee crowned withal." (I, v, 28-33)
- Lady Macbeth reflects on Macbeth's character stating that he has the ambition but not the will to carry it out
- This shows Lady Macbeth's philosophy on power and how it takes will to succeed
- in the second quote Lady Macbeth says she'll have to persuade Macbeth to follow her plan, this flips conventional 17th century gender roles

]]> 2019-03-04 03:16:06 UTC https://padlet.com/jacquelinec2113/9txw9u4pgs93/wish/337327163 Act 2 scene 1-2 jacquelinec2113 https://padlet.com/jacquelinec2113/9txw9u4pgs93/wish/337327189 Masculinity
Lady Macbeth
"Who was it, that thus cried?... Go get some water and wash this filthy witness from your hand. Why did you bring these daggers from the place? They must lie there. Go carry them and smear the sleepy grooms with blood." (II, ii, 47)
- imperative: masculine, demanding of her husband
- Interrogative: Motivating/ manipulating Macbeth through making him see that he is weak
"My hands are of your color [(red)], but I shame to wear a heart so white." (II, ii, 68)
- Contrast of colors
- White: symbolises purity
"shame to wear a heart so white" shows her brutality and masculinity
- Red: symbol of sin

Macbeth's struggle of righteousness and masculinity
"How is't with me, when every noise appals me? What hands are here? Ha: they pluck out mine eyes. With 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." (II, ii, 60-66)
- "they pluck out mine eyes" demonstrates the pain that he feels for committing such sin
- "all great Neptune's ocean" -> hyperbole, shows how much blood there is on his hands (how sin he feels)
Femininity
Macbeth'sDagger speech (II, i, 32)
- internal struggle is brought to life through the detailed description and narration of his struggles
- rationalizing, making sense of what he is going to do
Lady M. "Had he not resembled my father as he slept, I had done't." (II, ii, 12-13)
- Showing humanity and femininity as she cares for her father

Juxtaposition of Macbeth and lady M's dialogues contrast their femininity/ masculinity.
"Infirm of purpose" - Lady M
"every noise appals me" - Macbeth
Power
"If you shall cleave to my consent, when 'tis, It shall make honour for you" (II, i, 25 - 26)
- Establishing hierarchy between macbeth and banquo
- Demonstrates Macbeth's ambition for the throne

"give me the daggers. The sleeping and the dead are but as pictures" (II, ii, 56)
- imperative: demanding of a man; shows masculinity and power over her husband
- insensitiveness of lady Macbeth: "pictures" -> objectifying the sleeping and the dead

Ambition
"I dreamed last night of the three weird sisters; to you they have showed some truth." (II, i, 20-21)
- hinting at how since truth has been shown, the prophecy should continue to come true

]]> 2019-03-04 03:16:15 UTC https://padlet.com/jacquelinec2113/9txw9u4pgs93/wish/337327189 Act 1 Scene 1-3 wangjacqueline0 https://padlet.com/jacquelinec2113/9txw9u4pgs93/wish/337327256 Femininity

“By each at once her choppy finger laying upon her skinny lips; you should be women, and yet your beards forbid me to interpret that you are so”(I, iii, 42)

Banquo described the ambiguous gender traits of the female witches, their appearance and behaviors contains both female and male features, which confuses Banquo. This ambiguity also foreshadows a series of incidents caused by the witches’ actions.

Power

“I myself have all the other, and the very ports they blow, all the quarters that they know, i’th’shipman’s card. I’ll drain him dry as hay: sleep shall neither night nor day hang upon his penthouse lid; he shall live a man forbid.” (I, iii, 13)

This shows the supernatural power the witches possess that can easily turn a man’s life miserable. The unlimited power demonstrate the witches’ vindictive nature and manipulative strength, implying that their ability to change the reality is unpredictable and even destructive.

Ambition

“Do you not hope your children shall be kings, when those that gave the Thane of Cawdor to me promised no less to them?”

this line of Macbeth after hearing that he is crowned as the Thane of Cawdor shows that he as gained much hope for the witches’ prophecy since one of their predictions has came true. He tried to convey the idea to Banquo as well, the question he asked implies his own ambition of becoming the king.

Masculinity

“But all’s too weak, for brave Macbeth—well he deserves that name—disdaining fortune, with his brandished steel, which smoked with bloody execution, like Valour’s minion carved out his passage till he faced the slave, which ne’er shook hands, nor bade farewell to him, till he unseamed him from the nave to th’chaps.” (I, ii, 16)

According to the captain, Macbeth has been a belligerent hero in the battle. The vivid imagery portrays Macbeth as an aggressive and strong man who acts with determination and bravery. His behavior on the war field demonstrate his masculine characteristics, especially when murdering someone.

]]> 2019-03-04 03:16:41 UTC https://padlet.com/jacquelinec2113/9txw9u4pgs93/wish/337327256 Act 2 Scene 3-4 jessica01px2020 https://padlet.com/jacquelinec2113/9txw9u4pgs93/wish/337327382 Masculinity
Macbeth killed the guards to show his masculinity. He pretended to show rage, grief and sorrow. "Oh, yet I do repent me of my fury/That I did kill them" (II.iii.121-122).

Femininity
Lady Macbeth is surprised and shocked that an act of murder happened in her household. She then faints saying, "help me hence, ho" (II.iii.112) after hearing the news. She uses her femininity to show the people around her that she is a female that is weak and fragile. She would be the last to get speculated.

"This murderous shaft that's shot/Hath not yet lighted, and our safest way/Is to avoid the aim" (II.iii.166-168). Malcolm and Donalbain shows femininity after they heard that their father got killed. If masculinity in the play means to be brave and kill people, then those two brothers show femininity. They get scared that they will get killed next and instead of finding who it killed their father and killing that person, they run away to different places.

Power
"..let us meet and question this most bloody piece of work, to know it further..." (II.iii.148-150)
Banquo utilizes his power to call everyone in a meeting to talk about this murder.

Ambition
In Act 2 scene 3 when all the noble men are seeking for the murderer of Duncan’s death, she was eliminated as a suspect of the murder by Duncan’s son — Macduff. Yet she is actually the one that should've been accused. The reason why Macduff trusted Lady Macbeth was simply because he was being blinded by her sweet-tempered outer image, “- O gentle lady, /’Tis not for you to hear what I can speak. /The repetition in a woman's ear/Would murder as it fell” (II.iii.77-80). Macduff refused to tell Lady Macbeth the truth, afraid that she would get scared but ironically she is the one who planned the entire murder.

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