| G Wilson Knight’s view about doubt in the play (world of doubt). | G Wilson Knight: “All the persons are in doubt, baffled”. |
| Sigmund Freud’s view that Macbeth and Lady Macbeth are two parts of the same person. (Gothic protagonist & identity). | Freud: They are “like disunited parts of a single psychical individuality.” Ludwig Jekels agrees. |
| Cedric Watt’s views about ‘strange place’ within the play. (Strange place). | Cedric Watts: “Such imagery of darkness, the eerie and the uncanny, and of nature being disrupted and perverted helps to make Macbeth one of the most potently atmospheric of plays” |
| Marilyn French’s view about gender in the play. (Gender). | Marilyn French: The play is a victory of masculine over feminine, with Lady Macduff and Macbeth dead, it becomes “a totally masculine world”. |
| LC Knights’ view that Macbeth’s evil comes from his ambition and greed. (Good .vs. Evil). | LC Knights: “Macbeth defines a particular kind of evil- the evil that results from a lust of power.” |
| Bradley’s view that the witches might simply be women. (The uncanny). | Bradley: “There is not a syllable in ‘Macbeth’ to imply that [the witches] are nothing but women”. |
| Wiatt Ropp’s belief that Macbeth is nothing more than a tyrant. | Wiatt Ropp: ‘Macbeth is revealed as little more than a petty tyrant’ |
| Isador H. Coriat’s belief that Lady Macbeth is not a subject of fate, but of a mental illness. | Isador H. Coriat: “She is not the victim of a blind fate or destiny or punished by a moral law, but affected by a mental disease.” |
Macbeth Critical Quotes.
November 26, 2019