macbeth context Flashcards

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gender roles

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5-10% of women were literate
most couldn’t own property

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kingship - god

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divine right of kings
- belief that the king was chosen by god
- any act against the king was against god

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kingship - importance

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great chain of being
- god was highest authority then the king
- macbeth goes against the chain

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kingship - how m became king

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tannestry
- scottish law that the king can be chosen and is not necessarily the heir

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witches - prophecies

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gun powder plot
- used equivocation - conspirators didn’t reveal whole truth - gov saw this as lying and thought it was evil

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witches - evil

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were seen as evil and killed
- king james wrote ‘Daemonology’ and had fascination with witches

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king james

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wrote daemonology- fascination with witches
king james named his friends earls like Malcom

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holinsheds chronicles

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  • the story was based on these
  • in this macbeth was said to rule well for many years
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religion in elizabethan times

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  • monarch was leader of church - important - god chose king
  • protestant country
  • biblical references
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shakespearean tragedy

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  • dramatised stories characterised by death and disaster
  • macbeth is the tragic hero said to be fated to doom and suffering - had a fatal flaw(his ambition)
  • stems from greek tragedy
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