MACBETH OH NO

ambition

Lady Macbeth’s ambition- driven my selfish and green

/uses macbeth’s power to try to gain, therefore influencing Macbeth

-‘come thick night, and pall in the dunnest smoke of hell’

→ link to ‘hover through the fog and filthy air’ → supernatural

-’look like the innocent flower, but be the serpent under’t’ → gun powder plot

‘dash’d the brains out’

Macbeth’s ambition- his hamartia, weakness of desire to become king captured and manipulated by witches

‘stars, hide your fires, let not light see my black and deep desires’ → regicide (trochaic tetrameter)

‘hover through the fog and filthy air’ → supernatural

‘Vaulting ambition, which o’erleaps itself’

the inviteble regret that eventually comes → blood motif of sin and wrongdoings

‘will all of Neptune’s ocea wash this blood clean from my hand? No… making the green one red’ → greek beliefs…. also Aristotle’s concept

‘here’s the smell of blood still: all the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand’

violence/ power

• macbeths great power in the beginning

• macbeth takes advantage of it to commit evil regicide (ambition)

• consequences of it → nihilism

(if power talk about how he looses power over his state of mind strong+loyal → manipulated+confusion →

‘o valiant cousin, worthy gentlemen!’ → following the great chain of being’

‘unseam’d him from the nave to the chaps’

‘stars hide your

‘hover through the fog and filthy air’

‘will all of naptunes ocean wash this blood clean from my hand? No.. making the green one red’

‘to-morrow, to-morro

ANIMALS?

supernatural

1. they are very powerful and manipulative

‘fair is foul, foul is fair, hover through the fog and filthy air

‘none of a woman born shall harm Macbeth’

1. manipulated by Macbeth, causing ambition → hamartia

‘stars, hide your fires and let not light see my black and deep desires’

‘is this a dagger i see before me’ → looses sense of reality

1. their impact to Macbeth = destruction and downfall

‘will all of great neptunes ocean wash this blood clean from my hand? No… make the green one red’

‘to-morrow, to-morrow, to-morrow, creeps in this petty pace from day to day’

(‘full of scorpions in my mind’)

good and evil

1. macbeth = good in beginning

2. influence of witches = evil

3. downfall and consequence

guilt

1. guilt in LM - not immediate

‘Here’s the smell of blood still: all the perfume of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand’

‘but i shame to wear a heart so white’

1. guilt in macbeth - immediate, turns into paranoia

‘will all of great neptunes ocean wash this blood clean of my hand? no… making the green one red’

‘full of scorpions is my mind dear’

1. ultimate consequence through destruction (it would alsywa slead to….)

‘tomorrow, tomorrow, tomorrow, creeps in this petty pace from day to day’

‘life is but a walking shadow’

kingship

1. macbeth honouring king = good

2. macbeth killing king = bad + ruining natural order

3. macbeth being a tyrant, taking advantage of his power = paranoia and destruction

gender

generder roles are specifically mentioned by lady macbeth

1. LM challenges traditional female roles, offers her identity for power → woman inferior to men…

‘take my milk for gall’

‘unsex me here’

1. emsculates Macbeth → natural order

‘to wear a heart so white’

(‘You are too full o’ the milk of human kindness’)

‘dash’d the braind out’

1. Lady Macbeth tries to play a masculine role but ultimately fails

‘look like the innocent flower, but be the serpent under’t’

‘here’s the smell of the blood still: all the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand’

appearance and reality

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1. physically → by ambition

‘look like the innocent flower, but be the serpent under’t’

‘stars, hide your fires let not light see my black and deep desires’

1. mental → from ambition

‘is this a dagger i see before me’

‘thou canst not say i did it’

1. destruction → looses all consciousness and hope for life

‘tomorrow, tomorrow, tomorrow’

‘life is but a walking shadow’

loyalty

1. macbeth was loyal to duncan

2. macbeth becomes ambitious

3. hallucincations and paranoia