Storyline:
•Hamlet=> theme driven and Macbeth=>character driven
•Rise and fall of a great man!
***TRAGEDY
•Macbeth has flaws and at the end he is alone and falls
***Symbolism: Everything that made him who he was disintegrated at the end. (He is the architect of his own destruction!)
Duncan’s Murder: Question---Why does Macbeth kill him??
•Complex answer: not only just ambition
•Macbeth isn’t a hypocrite: He knows there is going to be consequences and faces them like a “man.” (kills Duncan knowing it’s wrong)
•Another connection to Hamlet!=> He goes back and forth and questions decisions.
•Lady Macbeth: Puuuuure evil! She is the tools of destruction and pushes Macbeth to do wrong.
***Irony: doesn’t seem like a mother figure at all!! She is all animus and makes Macbeth look anima.
•Macbeth hallucinates a dagger: he knows what he doing is wrong.
Tragic Part:
*** Admiration: Macbeth is on a killing streak. He is completely determined and loses his conscious.
•Heroic quality: he suffering but won’t crack.
***Irony: He eventually becomes terrified of himself.
•Lady Macbeth suddenly gains a conscious and completely falls apart. (ex: commits suicide)
•She feels a sense of quilt after the first death. (All talk no action maybe??)
•Their relationship is ruined. Less communication and more tension between the Macbeths.
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