Wednesday, April 18, 2012

MacBeth Lecture Notes

-MacBeth the tragic hero
Is king is act 3, 5 acts total
No long soliloquies like Hamlet
MacBeth is a tragic hero, his flaw being he can't be content with what he has he always wants more.
Chief function of Lady MacBeth is to keep the vision of being king alive for MacBeth.
Animus is masculine and lady MacBeth is animus. Anima is feminine and when MacBeth shows anima sides of him Lady MacBeth ridicules him.
Lady MacBeth and the witches support him to kill but it is ultimately his choice to kill and continue to kill.
The danger of killing Duncan is pulling him toward the kill.
Since MacBeth violated all rules of community by killing Duncan, he might as well kill more.
The murder as cost him what made him great in the beginning.
As Lady MacBeth continues to kill and do evil but it ultimately kills her.

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