context - religion

Question 1

what religion was the jacobean audience?

Answer 1

• protestant
• catholics = prosecuted

Question 2

significance of great chain of being

Answer 2

• natural order + divine right to rule
• king acts as god’s representative on earth
• macbeth’s crimes = mortal sins

Question 3

theme of death in macbeth

Answer 3

• absence of religious figures in the play
• macbeth’s world = devoid of god + religious morals
• suicide prevelent in shakespearian writing
• revolutionary for exploring moral complexities of death
• shakespeare’s views on death were non-domenational