Macbeth Themes

Question 1

Ambition

Answer 1

• jump the life to come
• ‘o’erleaps itself’
• heart knocks
• poisoned chalice MCD CONT
• cursed usurper

Question 2

Fate

Answer 2

TO B:
• juggling fiends, harper

NOT TO B:
• seeds of time
• disdaining fortune
• Macduff

Question 3

Masculinity

Answer 3

• ‘worthy gentleman’
• ‘unsex me’ not power + witches beards
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• feel it as a man + grief to anger

Question 4

Appearance vs reality

Answer 4

• fair is foul and foul is fair= PARADOXAL CHIASMUS and grammatical reversal
• ‘serpent’ biblical allusion + letters have transported me from ignorant present and I feel at once in the future
• ‘seeds of time’
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Question 5

Kingship vs tyranny

Answer 5

• his virtues will plead like Angels trumpet tongued+ donnchadh BUT worthy gentleman
• ‘our country, it weeps’ + worth more sorrow
• behold where stands the cursed usurpers head