| What 3 qualities define a King? | Piety, humbleness and temperance. |
| Examples of piety? | Old Man giving his blessing, Macbeth murdering the guards breaking the hierarchy under God, Macbeth talking about the devil is disobedient. |
| Examples of temperance? | terrible desires within me, when Macbeth calls the witches hags, Macbeth threatening the witches with an eternal curse. |
| Examples of humbleness? | Duncan saying you can’t read a man’s mind by looking at his face and how he trusted him, Macbeth talking about how Banquo’s descendants will be Kings, when Duncan decides to execute the Norwegian guy. |
| How does Lady Macbeth manipulate Macbeth? | Asks to be made more manly, asks Macbeth if he wants to live life as a coward, and when he questions himself, he says that murder is the manly thing to do. |
| How does Malcolm manipulate Macduff? | Malcolm tells him to dispute it like a man, Macduff says that he must feel it like a man, “O, I play the woman with mine eyes” |
| How do other characters use Lady Macbeth’s manipulation tactics? | Macbeth manipulates the murders about Banquo, “Beware Macduff”, “Hail to you, Thane of Cawdor.” |
| Why is Lady Macbeth more evil and responsible for the murderers? (ESSAY TOPIC) | She was present for the planning, she pressures Macbeth and she coordinated the murder. |
| How does Lady Macbeth pressure Macbeth into killing Duncan? | asking if he wants to live as a coward, murder is a manly thing to do, Lady M saying she’d be ashamed if her heart was as weak as his. |
| How does Lady Macbeth coordinate the murder of Duncan? | She explains the plan to Macbeth, takes pride in her plan (daggers), she’ll put Duncan’s blood on the servants. |
| How is Lady Macbeth present in the murder of King Duncan? | Macbeth doesn’t want to commit the murder, Lady M keeps forcing the plan on him, Macbeth doubts his actions after the murder. |
| How does Duncan’s murder affect the the natural order of things ? | Affects animal behaviour, nature, and human sanity. |
| How does Duncan’s murder affect animal behaviour? | Owl scream and the crickets cry, horses broke out of their stalls, Falcon was killed by an owl who normally goes after mice. |
| How does Duncan’s murder affect nature? | Earth shook as if it had a fever, wind blew down the chimneys, clock says its daytime but it looks like nighttime. |
| Hows does Duncan’s murder affect human sanity? | Is this a dagger, Macbeth seeing the ghosts, Lady Macbeth sleepwalking. |
| What three qualities led Macbeth to his murderous behaviour and eradication of himself? | Ambition, dark imagination and sense of self. |
| How does Macbeth’s dark imagination affect his murderous behaviour? | “All hail Macbeth”, how he interprets the prophecy, exaggerates the prophecy to Lady M in his letter. |
| How does Macbeth’s ambition lead to his murderous behaviour? | “to be thus is nothing”, aside on how the thought of murder shakes him up, “black and deep desires”. |
| How does Macbeth’s sense of self lead to his murderous behaviour? | Macbeth first seen as someone who fought for his country, questions motivation to kill Duncan, doubts himself because he knows that King trusts him. |
Macbeth Notes
September 10, 2019