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The Themes of Macbeth
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The Themes of Macbeth
Ambition
Macbeth seeks power
Spurred on by his wife
Causes his downfall
"I have no spur/ To prick the sides of my intent, but only/ Vaulting ambition
Evil
The urge to destroy whatever is good
The underlying presence of murderous intention and action
"Fair is foul, and foul is fair
Order and Disorder
The struggle to mantain or destroy social and natural bonds
The Destruction of morality and mutual trust
"Uproar the universal peace, confound/ All unity on earth
Appearance and Reality
Evil lurks behind fair looks
Deceit and hypocrisy mean that appearances cannot be trusted
Lady Macbeth's "look like th' innocent flower, / But be the serpent under 't"
Guilt and Conscience
Macbeth knows that what he does us wrong.
He does it and has to suffer the agonies of conscience as a result
"O, full of scorpions is my mind"
Equivocation
Telling deliberately misleading half-truths
"Th' equivocation of the fiend/ That lies like truth"
Violence and Tyranny
Warfare, destruction and oppression
"Pour the sweet milk of concord into hell"
Man
The violent feudal society of hierarchical male power breeds bloody stereotypes of what it is to be man.
"I dare do all that may become a man"
"But I must also feel it as a man"
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