Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Madness Macbeth
- Act 5 sn1
- Lang devices
- "The thane of
Fife had a wife"
- Rhyme as she admits to crimes
that she didn't commit. Shows
how guilt weighs on her mind.
- "Hell is murky"
- Religious
imagery scares
the audience.
- "Can call powers to account"
- She thinks that she'll be
punished in hell for her
actions. Scares people away
from committing crimes.
- Structure
- "will these
hands ne'er
be clean"
- Repeated motif of
blood and
handwashing show
guilt and madness.
- Content
- Lady Macbeth has
gone insane as
she feels guilty for
all her crimes.
- Context
- Mental health
wasn't viewed as
it is today . So this
was a unique view
on how people
could become
mad from guilt.
- Whole play
- Content
- Macbeth and Lady Macbeth both
show signs of madness. Lady
Macbeth started off powerful but
ends up being weak as her guilt
overwhelms her. Macbeth is
controlled by paranoia and his
ambitions.
- Banquo's ghost
- Macbeth was the only one who
could see him which was the
opposite of Hamlet's ghost. It
could show that he
hallucinated Banquo.
- "Is that a dagger I
see before me?"
- A hallucination. It
shows how he has
been corrupted by
his ambition. As he
is willing to hurt
Duncan who was a
"sainted king".