How shakespeare presents religion

Question 1

Para 1: Kingship seen as divinely ordained (When duncan dies scotland goes to ruin)

Answer 1

‘Some say the Earth/ Was feverous and did shake.’ (said when duncan murdered, shows literal earths reaction to murder, world turning to chaos, due to disturbance of GCOB, analyse personification and word feverous.

Question 2

Para 1: Kingship seen as divinely ordained (When duncan dies scotland goes to ruin)

Answer 2

‘O nation miserable/ with an untitled tyrant bloody-sceptered’ -macduff exclaiming scotland is ruined, unrighteous ruler,won place thru murder, analyse: Exclamation O, scotland personification, bloody sceptered metaphor of macbeth.

Question 3

Para 2: witches seen as devilish

Answer 3

‘These juggling fiends […] that player with us in a double sense.”

Question 4

Para 2: witches seen as devilish

Answer 4

‘Instruments of darkness.”

Question 5

Para 3: Macbeth’s murder of the king thus damns him

Answer 5

‘I had most need of blessing, and “Amen”/ stuck in my throat.’
(Macbeth says just after killing duncan, needs gods help, but bc he has done smth so sacrilegious god will no longer help him, he can no longer even pray.)

Question 6

Para 3: Macbeth’s murder of the king thus damns him

Answer 6

“This disease is beyond my practice.”