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Increase in brutality implies macbeth's increase in
villainy
The murders become progressively more
brutal: Duncan is stabbed > Banquo is
assasinated by 2 thugs > Macduff's family
and household are slaughtered.
This could show increasing villainy
as Macbeth cannot be bothered to
commit them himself and therefore
the victims are indifferent to him.
Macbeth becomes less and less
associated with the murders: Duncan
he kills personally > Banquo's
murder was committed by thugs >
Macduff & co. are slaughtered by
Macbeth's men
Order of Murders:
1st Duncan, 2nd
Banquo, 3rd
Macduff's
household
Lady Macbeth persuades Macbeth
to kill Duncan, she could be seen
as more villainous than Macbeth
He was murdered in his sleep - couldn't
defend himslef, showing that he wasn't
weak as he wasn't beaten in a fight
Duncan's is off stage - this
shows respect for the king and
his dignity stays intact
Banquo was murdered brutally on stage - this is for
entertainment purposes
This shows Macbeth's power and villainy -
he kills them to threaten Macduff, it is done
maliciously and without cause - they are
unnecessary murders - children and women
are killed
Macduff's
household and
family are brutally
murdered on stage
The presentation of the
murders.
Murder
They are a
supernatural
forces controlling
fate
Macbeth commits the
murders because of the
prophecies
The villainy is built on
their prophecies
The witches
already seem to
know Macbeth,
showing that he
might already be
associated with
them, making him
villainous.
Witches
These may not be seen as
supernatural as they are
visions that Macbeth
experiences possibly due to
his guilty conscience
Banquo's ghost
haunts Macbeth,
making him have a
guilty conscience
The vision of the dagger could
also symbolize death hanging
in the air
The dagger which is imagined refers to
the quote: 'foul is fair and fair is foul'.
This means that what seems right isn't
right and what seems wrong isn't really
wrong
The dagger and
Ghost of Banquo
"With Tarquin's ravishing strides, towards his
design"
Descriptions of characters from
mythology
"Moves like a
ghost"
"Witchcraft
celebrates"
Language
Supernatural
Scared and overwhelmed:
"This supernatural
soliciting//Cannot be ill,
cannot be good","Whose horrid
image doth unfix my hair...".
Ambition and excitement:
"Why hath it given me earnest
of success?". Disbelief:
"...stand not within the
prospect of belief". Intrigued:
"...tell me more" - his curiosity
suggest villainy.
This is Macbeth's response to the
witches
Villainy is presented through the soliloquy as it gives an insight to his
thoughts. However Macbeth doesn't seem very villainous yet but the idea
of regicide is born
1st: "He's here in double
trust...."
Before he kills the King (like a pep
talk)
It is a pivotal moment at which Macbeth clearly
turns villainous.
Fearing discovery: "Thou sure and firm-set earth//hear
not my steps..., for fear//Thy very stones prate of my
whereabout". Wants to be disassociated with the deed:
"wither'd murder...moves like a ghost". Guilty
(conscience driving him crazy: "...a dagger of the mind,
a false creation,//proceeding from the heat-oppressed
brain?". Ambition: "I go, and it is done..."
2nd: "Is this a dagger which I see before
me..."
Soliloquies
(order)
Dramatic
Techniques
This quote could also be interpreted as a
premonition of the murder Macbeth will
commit
"And on thy blade and dudgeon gouts of
blood"
It is used to convey guilt, murder, treachery
and evil
Blood
Premonition of villainous
characters
"When shall we three meet
again, In thunder, lightning,
or in rain"
Thunder and lightning announces the
witches
The fore-warning of villainous
actions
There are storms on the night
of Duncan's murder
Weather
Stars are the truth and macbeth orders them
not to shine as their light will reveal his
villainous deeds
"Stars, hide your fires, let no
light see my dark desires"
Darkness allows Lady
Macbeth to do evil - It
implies that deceit and
treachery can go
unnoticed and villainous
acts can be done freely
"Come, thick night...nor
heaven to peep through
the blanket of the
dark..."
Dark = villainy and
evil Light = good
and truth
Darkness
Imagery
Blank
Verse
10 syllables per line and stresses every other
syllable
Iambic
Pentameter
The witches talk mainly in rhym,
therefore act as 1 unit of evil and
villainy
Macbeth talks a lot in imabic
pentameter and blank verse - a form of
poetry, therefore suggesting an
association with the witches
It groups characters
(villains)
Poetry
The use of Macbeth's soliloquies (see Dramatic Techniques -
Soliloquies)
This allows the audience to experience
Macbeth's increasing villainy
throughout the whole play
Act 1: Expostition,
Act 2: Complitcation,
Act 3: Crisis Act, 4:
Resolution, Act 5:
Denoument
5 Acts
Language &
Structure
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