Urata 6th 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)

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

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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 16:54:38 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 16:54:38 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).

Banquo giving credit/ thanks to King Duncan

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"There if I grow, The harvest is your own." Shakespeare (1.4.37-38)

Macbeth kills for power

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"I go, and it is done. The bell invites me. Hear it not, Duncan, for it is a knell That summons thee to heaven or to hell" (Shakespeare 2.1.75-77).

A witch foreshadowing the prophecy

vgill6738 — 2025-02-06 20:18:39 UTC

"All hail, Macbeth, that shalt be king hereafter"(1.3.53).

Lady Macbeth saying she will kill her child to become royalty

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"I would, while it was smiling in my face, have plucked my nipple from his boneless gums and dashed the brains out, had I sworn as you have done to this" (Shakespeare 1.7.64-67).

Macbeth

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"I am afraid to think what I have done. Look on't again I dare not." (2.2.65-67)

macbeth

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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." (2.2.77-81)

Metaphor

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"If you can look into the seeds of time and say which grain will grow and which will not, speak, then, to me, who neither beg nor fear your favors nor your hate"(1.3.59-62)

Macbeth talks to himself about overcoming Malcolm and gaining power.

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"That is a step on which I must fall down or else o'erleap, for in my way it lies. Stars, hide your fires; Let not see my black and deep desires." Shakespeare(1.4.55-58).

Macbeth's Guilt

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"One cried "God bless us" and "Amen" the other; As they had seen me with these hangman's hands, list'ning their fear. I could not say "Amen" when they did say "God bless us"." (2.2.37-40)

Lady Macbeth convinces Macbeth to kill in order to become king.

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"But screw your courage to the sticking place, and we'll not fail." (1. 7. 70-71)

Lady Macbeth wants Macbeth to be king.

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"To alter favor ever is to fear. Leave all the rest to me." (1.6. 85-86)

Macbeth's ambition drives him to backstab someone he admires.

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"I am settled and bend up Each corporal agent to this terrible feat. Away, and mock the time with fairest show. False face must hide what the false heart doth know (Shakespeare 1.7.92-95)."

Macbeth's loyalty to king Duncan

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"The service and the loyalty in doing it pays itself. Your highness' part is to receive our duties, and our duties are to your throne and state children and servants, which do but what they should by doing everything safe toward your love and honor." Shakespeare (1.4.25-30)

Macbeth killing for Lady Macbeth

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"I have done the deed. Didst thou not hear a noise?" Shakespeare(2.2.19)

Character development

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"Methought I heard a voice cry "Sleep no more! Macbeth does murder sleep" -the innocent sleep, Sleep that Knits up the raveled sleave of care, The death of each day's life, sore labor's bath, Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course, Chief nourisher in life's feast. Shakespeare (2.2. 47-52)

Macbeth

mmarsanick8011 — 2025-02-06 20:32:28 UTC

¨Stay, you imperfect speakers. Tell me more. By Sinel´s death I know I am Thane of Glamis. But how of Cawdor? The Thane of Cawdor lives A prosperous gentleman, and to be king...¨ (1.3.73,74.75)

Macbeth fear of the witches'

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"My thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical, Shakes so my single state of man" Shakespeare ( 1.3.152-153)

Macbeth feeling guilt after killing Duncan

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" I am afraid to think what I have done. Look on't again I dare you" Shakespeare ( 2.2.67-68)

Banquo

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"Thou hast it now-king, Cawdor, Glamis, all As the Weird Women promised, and I fear Thou played'st most fully for't." (3.1.1-3)

Macbeth to Macduff

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"Of all men else I have avoided thee. But get thee back. My soul is too much charged/ With the blood of thine already." (5.8.5-7)

Macbeth tries to control his own destiny

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

Macbeth's description is different compared to the beginning

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"That, when they shall be open'd, black Macbeth will seem as pure as snow, and the poor state esteem him as a lamb, being compared with my confineless harms." (4.3.59-62)

Macbeth arranging Banquos murder so his sons will not become kings

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¨And so i pray be you. Let your remembrance apply to Banquo; present him eminence both eye and tongue:unsafe the while that we must lave our honors in these flattering streams and make our faces vizards to our hearts, disguising what they are.¨ (3.2.33-39)

Macbeth sees Banquo's ghost

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"When now I think you can behold such sights and keep the natural ruby of your cheeks when mine is blanched with fear." (3.4.139-141)

Macbeth

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"Your cause of sorrow must not be measured by his worth, for then it hath no end."

(5.8.50-52)

Fear

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"If God, why do I tried to that suggestion Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair And make my seated heart knock at my ribs. (1.3.147-149)

Macbeth

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"Thou loses labor. As easy mayst thou the intrenchant air with thy keen sword impress as maker me bleed. Let fall thy blade on vulnerable crests; I bear a charméd life, which must not yield to one of woman born." Shakespeare (5.8.11-16)

Macbeth's ambition to kill Duncan

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"I have no spur to prick the sides of my intent, but only vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself and falls on th' other" (1.7.25-28).

Lady Macbeth's Guilt

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"Here's the smell of the blood still. All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand. O, O, O!"(5.1.53-55)

Macbeth

mmarsanick8011 — 2025-02-26 20:02:44 UTC

"To kiss the ground before young Malcolm's feet And to be baited with the rabble's curse. Through Birnam Wood come to Dunsinane And though opposed, being of no women born, yet I will try the last. Before my body I throw my warlike shield. Lay on, Macduff, and damned be him that that cries "Hold! Enough!" (5.8.32-39)

Macbeth

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"Sleep no more! Macbeth does murder sleep"-the innocent sleep, sleep that knits up the raveled sleave of care, the death of each day's life,sore labor's bath balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course, chief nourisher in life's feast. (Shakespeare 2.2.47-52)

Macbeth is going crazy after killing Banquo, he is no longer loyal to his friends which later comes back to haunt him

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¨Ay, and since too, murders have been performed too terrible for the ear. The time has been That, when the brains were out, the man would die, And there an end. But now they rise again with twenty mortal murders on their crowns¨ (3.4.93-97)

Macbeth will not agree to power that isn't his even if it means death.

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"I will not yield

to kiss the ground before young Malcolm's feet and to be baited with rabble's curse. Though Birnam Woods be come Dunsinane and thou opposed, being of no woman born, yet I will try last. Before my body I throw my warlike shield. Lay on, Macduff, and damned him that first cries "Hold! Enough!" Shakespeare (5.8.32-39)

Lady Macbeth would kill her child to be queen

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"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 dashed the brains out, had I so sworn as you have done to this."

(1.7.63-66)

Macbeth will do anything to stay king

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"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 will act on ambition and do anything to maintain power

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"From this moment the very firstlings of my heart shall be the firstlings of my hand. And even now, to crown my thoughts with acts, be it thoughts with acts, be it thoughts and done: The castle of Macduff I will surprise"(4.1.166-171)

Macbeth doesn't care if Thanes dislikes or follows him anymore because of the blinding power mindset he has acquired throughout the play.

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"Bring me no more reports. Let them fly all. Till Birnam Wood to Dunsinane I cannot taint with fear. What's the boy Malcolm? Was he not born of a woman? The spirits that know all mortal consequences have pronounced me thus: "Fear not Macbeth. No Man that's born of a woman Shall e'er have power upon thee." Then fly, false thanes, And mingle with the English epicures the mingle I sway by and the heart I bear Shall never sag with doubt nor shake with fear." Shakespeare (5.3.1-10)

Lady Macbeth would kill her child to become queen.

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"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 dashed the brains out, had I so sworn as you have done to this."

(1.7.63-66)

Lady Macbeth is loyal to Macbeth after helping him kill Duncan

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"Go get some water and wash this filthy witness from your hand."(2.2.60-61)

Macbeth's guilt has drained him

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"I have lived long enough. My way of life is fall'n into the sere, the yellow leaf" (5.3.26-27)

Macbeth fears that Banquo's children, not his own, would be king of Scotland.

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"O, Full of scorpions is my mind, dear wife! Thou know'st that Banquo and his Fleance lives".(3.2.41-42)