One of the greatest tragedies of Shakespeare

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2. By William Shakespeare
Monir Hossen
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Department of English
Uttara University
Email: monir.eng.cou@gmail.com
Macbeth
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3. “Fair is foul, and foul is fair,
hover through fog and filthy air.”
― Willam Shakesphere, Macbeth
“Look like the innocent flower,
But be the serpent under it.”
― William Shakespeare, Macbeth
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4. Shakespeare’s shortest and bloodiest tragedy, Macbeth
tells the story of abrave Scottish general (Macbeth) who
receives aprophecy from atrio of sinister witches that one
day he will become King of Scotland. Consumed with
ambitious thoughts and spurred to action by his wife,
Macbeth murders King Duncan and seizes the throne for
himself. Hebegins his reign racked with guilt and fear and
soonbecomes atyrannical ruler, ashe is forced to commit
more and more murders to protect himself from enmity
and suspicion.The bloodbath swiftly propels Macbeth and
Lady Macbeth to arrogance, madness, and death.
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5. Macbeth is not Shakespeare’s most complex play, but it is
certainly one of his most powerful and emotionally intense.
Whereas Shakespeare’s other major tragedies, such as
Hamlet and Othello, fastidiously explore the intellectual
predicaments faced by their subjects and the fine nuances
of their subjects’ characters, Macbeth tumbles madly from
its opening to its conclusion. It is asharp, jagged sketch of
theme and character; assuch, it hasshocked and
fascinated audiencesfor nearly four hundred years.
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7. FullTitle: TheTragedyof Macbeth
MajorConflicts: Thestruggle within Macbeth
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betweenhis ambition and his senseof right and wrong;
the struggle between the murderous evil represented by
Macbeth and Lady Macbeth and the best interests of
the nation, represented by Malcolm and Macduff
Climax: Macbeth’s murder of DuncaninAct 2 represents
the point of no return, after which Macbeth is forced to
continue butchering his subjects to avoid the consequences
of hiscrime.

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9. Duncan–King of Scotland
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 Malcolm –Duncan's eldestson
 Donalbain –Duncan's youngestson
Macbeth –A general in the army of King Duncan,
originally Thaneof Glamis,then Thaneof Cawdor
andlater King of Scotland
 Lady Macbeth– Macbeth's wife, and later Queen of
Scotland
Banquo – Macbeth's friend, a general in the army
of KingDuncan
 Fleance –Banquo'sson
Macduff –TheThaneof Fife
Hecate–Chiefwitch/GoddessofWitchcraft
ThreeWitches

10. Character’s Map

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13. TheCorruptingPowerofUnchecked Ambition
TheRelationshipBetweenCrueltyand Masculinity
(gender)
TheDifferenceBetweenKingshipand Tyranny (king
vs.tyrant)
Extreme passion for glory and power
Horror
Bloodshed
Killing and Murder
Conspiracy
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14. Hallucinations
Violence
Prophecy
Sleep (Duncan vs.Macbeth)
External Forces
Supernatural Elements
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15. Blood (permanentstain)
TheWeather
Daggers
The Crown
Perfumes
Water
Sea
Palace
Different Sounds
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17. 1. Fair is foul, and foul is fair. (witches)
2. If you canlook into the seedsof time,
And saywhich grain will grow and which will not,
Speakthen to me, who neither beg nor fear
Yourfavours nor your hate. (Banquo)
3. Look like the innocent flower, but be the serpent
under it. (Lady Macbeth)
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18. 4. Come, youspirits
That tend on mortal thoughts! unsex me here,
And fill me from the crown to the toe top full
Of direst cruelty; make thick my blood,
Stop up the accessand passage to remorse,
That no compunctious visitings of nature
Shakemy fell purpose. (Lady Macbeth)
5. If chancewill have me king, why, chancemay
crown me.(Macbeth)
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19. 6. Come, thick night,
And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell,
That my keen knife seenot the wound it makes,
Nor heavenpeep through the blanket of the dark,
Tocry, 'Hold, hold!‘(Macbeth)
7. Falseface must hide what the false heart doth
know. (Macbeth)
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20. 8. Isthis adagger which I seebefore me,
Thehandle toward my hand?Come, let me clutch
thee.
I have thee not, and yet I seethee still.
Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible
Tofeeling asto sight? or art thou but
Adagger of the mind, afalse creation,
Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?
(Macbeth)
9. Theattempt and not the deed
Confounds us. (LadyMacbeth)
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21. 10. Methought I heard avoice cry, "Sleep no more!
Macbeth doesmurder sleep!" the innocent sleep,
Sleep that knits up the ravelled sleave of care,
The death of each day's life, sore labor's bath,
Balm of hurt minds, great nature's secondcourse,
Chief nourisher in life's feast. (Macbeth)
11. Glamis hath murdered sleep, and there Cawdor
Shall sleep no more, Macbeth shall sleepno more!
(Macbeth)
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22. 12. Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood
Cleanfrom my hand?No, this my hand will rather
The multitudinous seasincarnadine,
Making the green one red. (Macbeth)
13. Alittle water clears usof this deed. (Lady
Macbeth)
14. Thou hast it now: King,Cawdor,Glamis, all,
Asthe weird women promised; and, I fear,
Thou play'dst most foully for't . (Banquo)
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23. 15. Things without allremedy
Should be without regard; what's done is done.
(Lady Macbeth)
16. There 's daggers in men's smiles. (Donalbain)
17. Hence, horrible shadow!
Unreal mockery, hence! (Macbeth)
18. Blood will have blood. (Macbeth)
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24. 19. I am inblood
Stepped in so far that, should I wade no more,
Returning were astedious asgo o'er. (Macbeth)
20. Bebloody, bold, and resolute; laugh to scorn
Thepower of man, for none of woman born
Shall harm Macbeth.(Hecate)
21. When our actions donot,
Our fears do make ustraitors. (Lady Macduff)
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25. 22. Out, out, brief candle! Life's but awalking shadow, a
poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the
stageand then is heard no more: it is atale told by an
idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
(Macbeth)
23. Out, damned spot!Out, I say!One:two:
why, then 'tis time to do't. Hell is murky. Fie, my lord,
Fie!A soldier, and afeard? What need we fear who
Knowsit, when none can call our power accompt?
Yetwho would havethought the old man to havehad
somuch blood in him? (Lady Macbeth)
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26. 24. Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
Tothe last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
Theway to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but awalking shadow, apoor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more. Itis atale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.(Macbeth)
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28. “Here’s the smell of the blood still.
All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand. Oh, Oh, Oh!”
LADY MACBETH
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