macbeth and violence

Question 1

what is shakespeares three purpouses when discussing Macbeth and violence

Answer 1

• open up a discussion about whether violence was phsycologically damaging to his predomenenatly violence centred audience
• him being promised king is a motif for his moral decline, he is warning people how such anger and desire to kill the king can lead to a moral decline
• in order to flatter king james because he wanted his play company to become the kings players, in order fot him to earn more money

Question 2

quotes you need to remember for violence

Answer 2

• unseamed him from the nave to the chaps
• sleep no more, for macbeth does murder sleep
• disorientates macbeths moral compass when the witches suggest banquo is “braver and lesser than Macbeth. showing punishment for such violence and warning of displacing king james. its flattery as mentioned above

Question 3

context 1

Answer 3

“unseamed him from the nave to the chaps” employs macbeth as a construct to advocate the most quintissential form of a scottish soldier. such violent imagerey to an extreme extent presents him as indomitable

contrast in character here

• such rewards from these actions are presented as a motif for macbeths moral downfall. bloodthirsty protaganist in order to warn people from commiting further regocide
• macbeth courts for the king point.

Question 4

context 2

Answer 4

“disdaining fortune” hounouring macevellian legacy that the true masculine leaders avoid this feminine approach of letting fortune guide your life, and instead manipulating fortune so it can favour you, as we see throughout macbeths murder of duncan

turns out to be ironic as the play progreses and he becomes obssessivley consumed by the witches influence.

always entrust in god rather than dodgey supernaturals

Question 5

intro

Answer 5

macbeth is a cautionary tale, that reafirmed king james divine right to rule in the early 1600s, after his inicial nerves after the gunpowder plot. macbeths character, specifically violence is consistently spoardic, ranging as the perfect ruler to one of the most hideous

Question 6

context 3

Answer 6

‘So foul and fair a day I have not seen’ employs iambic pentametre to introduce macbeth as an aristocratic character. juxtaposition of these two words foreshadows the whole story

Question 7

quotes

Answer 7

‘So foul and fair a day I have not seen’
“disdaining fortune”
“unseamed him from the nave to the chaps”
“o valliant cousin, worthy gentleman”