Macbeth

Resolution of the play

Macbeth is killed and Malcolm becomes king

How is Macbeth described at the beginning

Brave Macbeth well he deserves that name

“Unsex me here”

She wants to be stripped of feminine weakness to commit murder

How does Macbeth change throughout the play

From noble hero to tyrant consumed by guilt and ambition

How is ambition shown in the play

Macbeth’s desire for power leads to his downfall

What theme is linked to Lady Macbeth’s guilt

The corrupting power of unchecked ambition

How is masculinity challenged in the play

Lady Macbeth manipulates Macbeth by questioning his masculinity

What theme is reinforced by Macbeth’s hallucinations

Guilt and the psychological effects of the evil

What is the role of supernatural in the play

Drives Macbeth’s actions and reflects moral disorder

What does imagery of blood symbolise

Guilt and violence

Effect of Macbeth’s soliloquies

Reveals his inner conflict and descent into madness

What does “Out damned spot” show about Lady Macbeth

Her overwhelming guilt and mental breakdown

Stars hide your fires let not light see my black and deep desires

Macbeth’s secrecy and growing evil

O full of scorpions in my mind dear wife

Macbeth’s mental instability and guilt

Our fears in Banquo stick deep

Macbeth’s paranoia about Banquo’s descendant

Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood clean

Shows Macbeth’s overwhelming guilt after Duncan’s murder

All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand

Shows Lady Macbeth’s descent into madness

Out out brief candle life’s but a walking shadow!

Macbeth’s nihilism after Lady Macbeth’s death

Fair is foul and foul is fair

Introduces moral confusion and foreshadows deception

So fair and foul a day I have not seen

Shows Macbeths connection to the witches

Unsex me here and fill me..full of direst cruelty

Lady Macbeth is rejecting femininity

Look like the innocent flower but be the serpent under’t

Lady Macbeth’s manipulation of Macbeth

Too full of the milk of human kindness

Lady Macbeth’s view of Macbeth’s nature

Hell bound

Macbeth’s final downfall