macbeth bravery

Question 1

what is the theme of bravery of Macbeth

Answer 1

he is only brave on the battle field and nowhere else

Question 2

bellona’s bridegroom

Answer 2

• bellona is the roman goddess of war
  ↳suggests he is married to the goddess of war
• highlights how great a warrior he is

Question 3

i fear thy nature, it is too full o’th’milk of human kindness

Answer 3

• LM is suggesting that M is not brave outside the battle field
• LM is worried about his personality because in order to complete their deed they need bravery
• ‘milk’ connotes to mothering
• LM feminises and switches their gender roles with M to show that he is not brave enough like her to commit regicide
• also shows that he is not fit to be king

Question 4

i’ll go no more. I am afraid to think what I have done; look on’t again, I dare not

Answer 4

-he is refusing to back with the dagger to frame the guards.
- early in the play he is unstable and emotional
(contrast to later Act5 quote ‘i have supp’d …’

Question 5

i have supp’d full with horrors; direness, familiar to my slaughterous thoughts, cannot once start me

Answer 5

the verb ‘supp’d’ means drank
↳implies he has consumed/ or witnessed many ‘horrors’ meaning terrible acts
the noun ‘direness’ means awfulness
↳awful things are too familiar to his mind
a mind full of ‘slaughterous thoughts’
↳brutal murder of innocent people
‘cannot start me’
↳nothing can frighten him now because he is numb
M experiences synesthesia and he has become desensitised
this leads to him doing even more bad things and ends up in a bad ending