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Mind Map by aleex_1995, updated more than 1 year ago
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Critical Readings of 'Macbeth'
- G. Wilson Knight
- 'Here life forces
are vividly and
very clearly
contrasted with
evil'
- 'Fear is at the heart of this
play'
- 'Here life forces
are vividly and
very clearly
contrasted with
evil'
- Samuel Johnson
- 'The danger of ambition is well described'
- 'The danger of ambition is well described'
- Sigmund Freud
- Thinks that the Macbeth's
psychological difficulties stems
from the trauma of them being
childless
- Thinks that the Macbeth's
psychological difficulties stems
from the trauma of them being
childless
- Jan Kott
- Argues that 'Macbeth' shows the
absurdity of the world and that history
is a nightmare
- 'Macbeth has only one theme: murder
- Argues that 'Macbeth' shows the
absurdity of the world and that history
is a nightmare
- Marilyn French
- Sees the play as
showing the victory of
masculine over the
feminine
- At the end of the play there
is a 'totally masculine world'
- Males problems are solved by the
elimination of females
- Sees the play as
showing the victory of
masculine over the
feminine
- Germaine Greer
- 'Macbeth's vulnerability to
the witches is not caused
by excessive superstition
on his part, but by corrupt
desire which moves him to
take a false step: he
misinterprets the fact that
two of their predictions have
come true'
- 'Macbeth is damnable
because he is a hero'
- 'His self-delusion is wilful'
- 'Macbeth's vulnerability to
the witches is not caused
by excessive superstition
on his part, but by corrupt
desire which moves him to
take a false step: he
misinterprets the fact that
two of their predictions have
come true'
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