Chain of Beings Motif

Question 1

1:3 Macbeth
Latent Ambition
Committing regicide will go against and upset the chain of beings. It was just a thought at this stage (fantastical-horrible to imagine), however, Macbeth doesn’t know who he is at this stage (shakes so my single state of man that function).

Answer 1

“Against the use of nature?…My thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical”

Question 2

1:7 Macbeth
Chain of Beings
Risking his soul and after life – he will go to hell
There are consequences to the order if he commits regicide.

Answer 2

“We still have judgement here that we but teach/ bloody instructions, which being taught, return/ To plague th’inventor”

Question 3

2:2 Macbeth
Chian of Beings
Acknowledging the murder is going against Gods will – chain of beings – killing Duncan who is considered the closest thing to ‘God’

Answer 3

“But wherefore could not pronounce ‘Amen’?/ I had most need of blessing and ‘Amen’?”

Question 4

2:4
Chain of Being
Upset chain of beings with owls killing falcon and Duncan’s horses becoming cannibalistic.

Question 5

5:1 Doctor
chain of beings
The regicide is an unnatural deed (changing chain of beings) where the unnatural troubles refer to not sleeping/sleepwalking.

Answer 5

“Unnatural deeds/ Do breed unnatural troubles”