Shakespeare’s Intentions

Question 1

Intentions regarding Ambition

Answer 1

Shakespeare utilises ambition as a central theme to underpin the play, revealing it’s MORALLY CORROSIVE AND BLINDING INFLUENCE on individuals driven by self fulfilling and EGOCENTRIC ASPIRATIONS

Question 2

Intentions regarding Guilt and regicide

Answer 2

As King James 1 was a patron to his plays, Shakespeare uses the play as a VEILED ALLEGORY. He intertwines the act of regicide with TORMENTING GUILT, as a potent reminder of the potential consequences for those who disrupt the DIVINELY ORDAINED ORDER OF KINGS.

Question 3

Intentions regarding supernatural

Answer 3

Shakespeare cautions the audience about the PERILOUS consequences of succumbing to the IRRESISTIBLE ALLURE OF SUPERNATURAL POWERS, emphasising that such engagement with this dark force inevitably results in a QUICK AND CATASTROPHIC DEMISE.