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Macbeth? Lets all give one piece of advise/help

  • 29-05-2014 04:46PM
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21


    Can somebody please help me out for MACBETH?
    I was thinking of covering the following topics

    •Theme of Kingship
    •Theme of good/evil
    •Lady Macbeth
    •Banquo
    •Macbeth

    The only thing is I find studying Macbeth really really hard? Please can anyone post any study tips/key points/key quotes/summary on any of the above topics? Anything at all would be appreciated.

    I know barely anything for it, it's so frustrating


Comments

  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 541 ✭✭✭TheBegotten


    This could be dangerously misleading, but since we're less than a week away I'll give you these. Our teacher gave us a list of ninety or so quotes on Macbeth for various theme's and subjects. I distilled them down into thirty or so which should stand to you for the character question. If you want more take them from Macbeth's soliloquies.

    https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6Ey9GYKo2I3dy1GZHdPQmNUbDA/edit?usp=sharing

    Most of them are general enough to argue either way. Good luck!


    EDIT: Just realised I missed a rather important quote from Act 1, Scene 7: I have given suck, and know/ how tender 'tis to love the babe that milks me -/ I would, while it was smiling in my face,/ Have plucked my nipple from his boneless gums,/ And dashed the brains out, had I so sworn. -- L. Macbeth

    This is important for several reasons:
    - As far as we know, Macbeth has no children. Lady Macbeth (historically) was a widow, and possibly had a child by her first husband. Another intereptation says Macbeth is impotent; another says their child has died already.
    - Lady Macbeth is utterly remorseless, unlike Macbeth who never fully loses his humanity
    - Relationships between father and son are a repeating theme in Macbeth: Malcolm and Donalbain are framed for their father's murder, as is Fleance. Macduff's son is killed by Macbeth's command. There are even a few theories based around Fleance being Lady Macbeth's son or Macbeth being Fleance's biological father, but these are not normally considered.


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