Macbeth is a play about
ambition run amok
. The weird sisters’ prophecies spur both Macbeth + Lady Macbeth to try to fulfill their ambitions, but the witches never make Macbeth/wife do anything. Macbeth + his wife act on their own to fulfill their deepest desires.
Which of the following is a theme from Macbeth loyalty?
Which of the following is a theme from Macbeth?
Loyalty is built on trust
. Ambition unchecked can lead to corruption.
Which of the following is a theme from Macbeth?
Terms in this set (3) Which of the following is a theme from Macbeth?
Ambition unchecked can lead to corruption
.
What does the dagger symbolize in Macbeth?
When he is about to kill Duncan, Macbeth sees a dagger floating in the air. Covered with blood and pointed toward the king’s chamber, the dagger represents
the bloody course on which Macbeth is about to embark
.
What does Macbeth feel is needed to restore Lady Macbeth to health?
What does Macbeth feel is needed to restore Lady Macbeth to health?
Medicine
.
What does Lady Macbeth mean when she says that her husband is too full of the milk of human kindness?
Basically, Lady Macbeth thinks that her husband is weak, and that if there is violence to be done, he will not have the guts to do it. When she says that he is too full of “the milk of human kindness,” she is
saying that he is too gentle to do what needs to be done.
What is the significance of Macbeth’s dagger soliloquy?
The dagger scene is one of the most important scenes in the tragedy of Macbeth. Macbeth’s soliloquy
gives a clear out view of his character development and the current status quo
. Shakespeare uses dark and grim language to depict Macbeth’s thoughts and imagination.
What does Macbeth symbolize?
As a tragedy, Macbeth is a dramatization of the psychological repercussions of unbridled ambition. The play’s main themes—
loyalty, guilt, innocence, and fate
—all deal with the central idea of ambition and its consequences.
How is Macbeth presented in the dagger soliloquy?
Macbeth speaks this famous soliloquy
when he is taken over by his guilt and growing insanity for killing Duncan
. His imagination brings forth the picture of a dagger in front of him, which symbolizes the impending murder. Macbeth has made his decision to kill the King and take the crown as his own.
What happens to Lady Macbeth?
As the wife of the play’s tragic hero, Macbeth (a Scottish nobleman), Lady
Macbeth goads her husband into committing regicide
, after which she becomes queen of Scotland. She dies off-stage in the last act, an apparent suicide.
How are Lady Macbeth’s actions ironic?
Lady Macbeth’s behavior expresses extreme amounts of guilt, while Macbeth, who only continues to kill, feels numb to the evil he is doing. … Dramatic irony; she
is apparently washing her hands
, but the audience knows she is washing away the metaphorical spots of blood from her involvement in/guilt from the King’s murder.
What type of hero is Macbeth?
Macbeth is the
tragic hero
of the play. Ambition is his fatal flaw. Tragic heroes start off nice, then a bad part of their personality kicks in (a fatal flaw) to make them not so nice.
Who said the milk of human kindness?
This expression was invented by
Shakespeare in Macbeth
(1:5), where Lady Macbeth complains that her husband “is too full of the milk of human kindness” to kill his rivals.
What technique is the milk of human kindness?
Personification
: ” nature is too full o’ th’ milk of human kindness… to catch the nearest way” personifying his nature as too gentle to get to the top. Lady Macbeth also doubts his ability to destroy others in order to gain the throne quickly.
What is Lady Macbeth’s impression speech?
What impression does Lady Macbeth’s speech give you about her character?
She is coldhearted, cruel, and very ambitious
.
Is the dagger real or a projection of Macbeth’s mind?
Macbeth says the dagger looks as “palpable” – or able to be touched or felt – as
the real dagger he now draws
. Still, he says his eyes are “fools o’ the other senses.” Either his eyes are fooling him to tell him the dagger is real, or his other senses which tell him the dagger is not real are wrong.
