MACBETH

MACBETH

BANQUO
1. LOYAL
  1. WHEN MACBETH HINTS THAT THEY COULD PLOT TOGETHER TO MAKE THE WITCHES PROPHECY COME TRUE. HE SAID HE'LL KEEP HIS ALLEGIANCE CLEAR
  2. AT THE BEGINNING HE ALSO FOUGHT 2 BATTLES WITH MACBETH FOR DUNCAN
2. TROUBLE COUSE FOR MACBETH
  1. HE SUSPECTS MACBETH MURDERED DUNCAN
    1. "I fear thou played'st most foully for't"
  2. BANQUO'S SON IWILL BE KING
    1. "They hailed him father to a line of kings"
  3. FLEANCE ESCAPES
3. HONOURABLE
  1. MACBETH HIMSELF DESCRIBES BANQUO AS AN HONEST MAN
  2. HE TELLS HIS SON TO LEAVE HIM AND SAVE HIMSELF
4. IN SHAKESPEARE TIMES IT WAS SAID THAT BANQUO WAS A DISTANT RELATIVE OF KING JAMES
MACBETH
1. TITLES
  1. THANE OF GLAMIS
  2. THANE OF CAWDOR
  3. KING OF SCOTLAND
    1. Hearing this makes him power hungry
2. KILLINGS
  1. HE KILLS KING DUNCAN
    1. Lady Macbeth persuades him to kill Duncan
    2. He does this to become King
    3. He immediately feel guilty after the killing and refuses to go back to put the knives back
      1. "I’ll go no more: I am afraid to think what I have done; Look on ’t again I dare not."
  2. HE KILLS BANQUO
    1. Banquo was his friend
    2. He's scared that Banquo suspects something
    3. Also because he is afraid of the witches' prophecy about Banquo's sons being kings
3. GOING MAD?
  1. BANQUO
    1. He sees Banquo's bloody ghost at the table after having had him killed
    2. He is slowly loosing his sanity worrying about how Banquo's sons will be kings
      1. "For Banquo's issue I have filed my mind"
  2. DUNCAN
    1. HE LOSES SLEEP OVER DUNCAN'S MURDER
    2. HE SEES THE KNIFE GUIDING HIM TO DUNCAN'S MURDER
LADY MACBETH
1. RELATIONSHIP
  1. ACT 1 & 2
    1. Lady macbeth is very dominant in the relationship
    2. They're very close
      1. Macbeth writes to her before anyone else
    3. Very Manipulative
  2. ACT 3 & 4
    1. she's losing dominion over the relationship
    2. They're losing their connection
      1. The banquet scene is their last scene together
2. MANIPULATIVE
  1. MANY PEOPLE BELIEVE THAT IT WAS LADY MACBETH WHO MANIPULATED MACBETH INTO KILLING DUNCAN.
  2. SHE QUESTIONS MACBETH'S MASCULINITY WHEN HE TRIES TO BACK OUT OF MURDERING DUNCAN
  3. SHE PUTS ON A FAKE ACT: SHE'S TWO-FACED
    1. "Look like the innocent flower, but be the serpent under it"
    2. "False face must hide what the false heart doth know."
3. SHR DOESN'T WANT TO FEEL GUILT
  1. SHE PRAYS TO THE SPIRITS FOR NO REMORSE
    1. "Stop th'access and passage for remorse"
  2. SHE DOESN'T MIND TAKING THE DAGGERS BACK
  3. SHE THINKS THAT SHE CAN JUST WASH THE BLOOD OFF OF HER HANDS
    1. We know later on in the play that she hallucinates about the blood on her hands and cannot rub it off.
    2. "A little water clears us of this deed"
THE WITCHES
1. THEME OF EVIL
  1. WITCHES ARE THE ONES WHO STARTED EVERYTHING
  2. THEY CAUSE TROUBLE TO EVERYONE THEY MEET
  3. THEY CARRIED OUT ACTS FOR THE DEVIL
2. WITCHES DURING THE TIME OF SHAKESPEARE
  1. KING JAMES I WAS A FAMOUS WITCH HUNTER AND SHAKESPEARE WROTE THIS PLAY TO PLEASE HIM
  2. EVERYONE WAS VERY SUPERSTITIOUS AND RELIGIOUS
    1. Witches were believed to have made deals with the devil
  3. WITCHES WERE BLAMED FOR EVERYTHING BAD THAT HAPPENED
  4. THEY HAD FAMILIARS.
3. ENCOUNTER WITH BANQUO AND MACBETH
  1. THEY PREDICTED A PROPHECY
    1. Macbeth will be king
    2. Macbeth will be Thane of Glamis
    3. Banquo's children will be kings
  2. MACBETH AND BANQUO QUESTION WETHER THY WERE REAL
    1. "Have we eaten upon the insane root"
  3. AFTER THIS MOMENT THE WITCHES ARE ALWAYD PRESENT IN MACBETH'S MIND

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