- Rise and fall of a good man.
- Act III- he becomes king
- rest of play is focused on the downfall
- his flaw is his ambition
- tragic because he started with so much potential
- he can't be happy with what he has after the witches tell him his future.
- the witches gave the suggestion, but made him do nothing.
- Macbeth and wife had discussed becoming king before.
- witches maybe response to a desire already there?
- Macbeth constantly changing his mind
- always weighing pros and cons of his actions
- he KNOWS right from wrong, but chooses to do wrong
- he'd be a full villain, if it weren't for his conscience.
- he suffers inside for the rest of the play after Duncan's murder.
- definition of tragic hero- reinforce values of society
- Macbeth fails royally at this
- he ends up alone, no friends, no wife, and hated by everyone
- doesn't want to kill king, but can't stop invisioning himself as king
- Lady Macbeth has no problem pushing her husband to murder Duncan
- she has no conscience. the embodiment of Evil
- Animus= masculine (not male)
- Anima= feminine (not female)
- Lady Macbeth is Animus
- the hallucination of the Knife as Macbeth is getting ready to murder Duncan
- he's psyching himself out, and the more he thinks about it, the more he doesn't want to do it.
- he can see his goal, so close to being king, but he can't bring himself to do it.
Macbeth as King
- he's dealing with guilt for the rest of the play.
- he's overcome with fear and paranoia.
- the courage he has is an outer one. he's not afraid to fight.
- starts making more bad decisions
- possibly a conscious decision?
- self-destructive behavior makes the ending pretty much inevitable
- maybe he thought it's what he desserved? who knows...
- Lady Macbeth handles the guilt differently
- she can't handle the torment inside.
- the one time she embodies stereotypical female=being fickle
- the sleepwalking is a metaphor
- "being there, but not being there"
- she's trying to wash the blood from her hands in her sleep
- confessing her sins
- a residual haunting on repeat in her mind
- reliving her crimes in her nightmares
- she feels guilty, but isn't aware of it, and therefore doesn't know how to deal with it
- unable to deal with the guilt she feels, she commits suicide.
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