Macbeth concept map

"If charnel houses and our graves must send

Those we bury back, our monuments

Shall be the maws of kites."

(Act 3 scene 4, line 71 - 73)

"Unnatural deeds

Do breed unnatural troubles."

(Act 5, scene 5 line 61 - 62)

""And I, the mistress of your charms,

The close contriever of all harms,

Was never called to bear my part,

Or show the glory of our art?"

(Act 3 scene 5, line 6 - 9)

Supernatural

BLOOD IMAGERY

"And on thy blade and dungeon gouts of blood,

Which was not so before. There's no such thing.

It is the blood business which informs" (Act 2,Scene 1: 45-44)

After Macbeth killed Duncan

he saw a dagger (not real). Macbeth is losing is mind after the murder of Duncan.

Will all great Neptune ocean wash this blood.

(Act 2, scene2, 56-58)

Macbeth looked at his hands, imagining blood on his hands. He had committed murder and feels guilty. "you have their blood on your hands now"

"Isn't known who did this more than bloody deed"

(Act 2, Scene 4: 4-19)

The more than bloody deed was the murder of Duncan, very horrendous because Duncan was a good man.

"There is blood upon thy face" (Act 3, Scene 4-13)

Macbeth has an aside with the First Murder, he notes the blood on the murders face indicates his wish, the death of Banquo and his son Fleance (who Macbeth doesn't know is not dead yet at this point)

"It will have blood they say. Blood will have blood" (Act 3, Scene 4: 121)

An old saying: the head will have their revenge. Ironic because Banquo's ghost haunts Macbeth after his crime. 'Blood for Blood' 'An eye for an eye'

MacBeth Imagery

"Hence, horrible shadow!

Unreal mockery, hence!"

(Act 3 scene 4, line 105 - 107)

"My little spirit, see,

Sits in a foggy cloud and stays for me."

(Act 3 scene 5, line 34 - 35)

Sleep Imagery

"Sleep no more!" (Act 2, Scene 2: 39-41)

Macbeth cannot sleep because of his crimes.

"... the sleeping and the dead

Are but pictures" (Act 2, Scene : 53-54)

Sleep is often a metaphor for death in Shakespeare. Sleep in this context is being put in comparison to death. Lying coldly on a bed, as if dead with eyes closes.

" This is her very guise; and upon my life, fast asleep observe her,stand close" (Act 5Scene 2; 17-18)

The Gentle woman and the Doctor are observing Lady Macbeth who is sleepwalking.

Lady Macbeth is disturbed as she talks in her sleep as she walks. Sleep walking can be a sign of distress. It seems as if Lady Macbeth's crimes have finally gotten to her as it has to Macbeth (floating dagger, ghost etc.)

"We have scotched the snake, not killed it.

She'll close and be herself, whilst our poor malice

Remains in danger of her former tooth."

(Act 3 sene 2 line 15 - 17)

"A falcon, towering in her pride of place,

Was by a mousing owl hawked at and killed."

(Act 2 scene 4 line 14 - 15)

Animals

'The obscure bird

Clamoured the livelong night."

(Act 2 scene 3 line 73 - 74)

"And Duncan's horses - a thing most strange and certain

Beauteous and swift, the minions of their race,

Turned wild in nature, broke their stalls, flung out,

contending 'gainst obedience, as they would make

War with mankind."

(Act 2 scene 4 line 16 - 20)

"For the poor wren,

The most diminutive of birds, will fight,

Her young ones in her nest, againt the owl."

(Act 4 scene 2 line 9 - 11)