“Is this a dagger I see before me?”

“A little water clears us of this deed.”

“Sleep no more!

Macbeth doth murder sleep.”

• Banquo

• uneasy mood

• disturbed by the witches’ prophecies

• Macbeth

• lies to Banquo

• psychological turmoil: the dagger

• the effect of sounds

• preoccupation with blood

“These deeds must not be thought

After these ways; so, it will make us

mad.”mad.”

“Sleep no more!” “Glamis has murd’red sleep, and therefore

Cawdor Shall sleep no more—Macbeth shall sleep no

more.”

• blood and water

Intro

Act I

Act II

Act III

loyal subject, moral courage, not opportunistic

strong ambition, inner conflict, murderous

immoral, irrational, foul play, regicide

hypocrite, false friend, criminal, usurper

Macbeth’s Corruption

Act IV

Act V

spiritually barren, murders children, “black and deep desires”, “fiend of Scotland”

loss of control, proud will, bitterness, ignoble death

Macbeth’s Corruption