Macbeth Themes

A brave Scottish general named Macbeth receives a prophecy from a trio of witches that one day he will become King of Scotland.

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Macbeth Themes

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Ambition

- Kingship

- Macbeth talks of Duncan as a good king

- Macbeth worries that his "fruitless crown"means he won't leave a line of kings afterhe dies "no son of mine succeeding"

- The witches show Macbeth a line of eightkings.

- Power

- Lady Macbeth's power over Macbeth

- Macbeth's power over Scotland

- Macbeth's loss of power when the rebelsrise up against him

- Power over one's own mind

- Control

- Tyranny

- Consequences of ambition

- Before the murder, Macbeth knows that his"vaulting ambition" could lead to hisdownfall.

- The Thane of Cawdor is executed for hisambitious plot to overthrow Duncan

- Context: Is Shakespeare warning ambitiouscourtiers against similar plots?

- Context: Shakespeare plays on theinsecurities of the time, writing one yearafter the Gunpowder Plot.

Good and Evil

- Supernatural- things that are unnatural areconsidered to be evil.

- Witches

- Lady Macbeth summoning the spirits

- Hallucinations

- Deception

- Macbeth's duplicity

- Lady Macbeth encourages him to beduplicitous "look like the innocentflower but be the serpent under it"

- Appearance vs reality

- Pretending to be someone you're not "starshide your fires; let not light see my blackand deep desires".

- Tyranny

- Macbeth's tyrannical leadership

- Overthrown by Macduff

- Good can triumph over evil

- Good characters are heroic and brave

- Murder and violence

- Macbeth's crimes get darker and darker-murders Duncan, then Banquo, thenMacduff's children.

- Does Macbeth still have any good in him?

Loyalty and Guilt

- Blood symbolises guilt

- Blood on Macbeth's hands- can't bewashed away, even with "all of Neptune'socean"

- Lady Macbeth can't wash the blood off herhands "out out damned spot"

- Sleep symbolises innocence

- Duncan murdered in his sleep- he isinnocent

- "Macbeth doth murder sleep"- Macbethcan't sleep because of the guilt he feels.

- Lady Macbeth sleep walks and reveals herguilt.

- Duncan believes Macbeth is loyal "Oworthiest cousin!", "brave Macbeth","noble Macbeth". He was loyal to Duncanin battle.

- Conscience

- Macbeth's conscience symbolised by thedagger?

- Lady Macbeth asks for the spirits to removeher femininity- her conscience- so that shecan be "Filled from the crown to the toetop-full of direst cruelty"

- Context: conscience is a Christian virtue.Having a conscience means you have somemorality. When do Macbeth and LadyMacbeth lose their consciences?

- Guilt implies they do have a conscienceafter all.

Supernatural

- Witches

- Hallucinations

- Ghosts

- Banquo's ghost appears at the feast-symbol of Macbeth's guilt. He is haunted byhis actions.

- Apparitions (conjured by the witches)

- Fate and Free Will

- Is Macbeth free to make his own choices?

- Macbeth believes fate drives his actions. Heseems to deny his own free will.

- Context: Jacobean belief in the Wheel ofFortune- Fortune would determine yourfate.

- Context: Christian belief in God's power.God chooses our paths, though we do havefree will.