Sunday, April 22, 2012

Macbeth Lecture Notes (continued)

Macbeth as King (continued)
-Macbeth cares less about killing others than he does about his own happiness
-killing becomes an addiction: he decides to kill Banquo and Fleance because he needs to kill, not because they are suspicious of what he has done
-Act 3, Scene 3, Lines 37-41
-Macbeth prays that God woudl remove all his human feelings so that he becomes dehumanized and is comfortable with killing
-This prayer comes true
-Macbeth is a killing machine that neither feels or thinks
-Macbeth has no more joy and doesn't care when his wife dies (act 5, scene 3)
-Macbeth uses the prophecy that he will become the Thane of Cawdor, (which comes true) to believe and prove that the witches are truthful
-There is no conclusion as to what happens to the witches

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