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Title: Good Vs Evil; Blood, Gore and Violence and Psychological Disorders in Macbeth
Description: These are sixth form notes from English Literature on Good vs Evil; Blood, Gore and Violence and Psychological Disorders in Macbeth. Giving background information and quotes for you to learn, as well as an exam questions to practice with.
Description: These are sixth form notes from English Literature on Good vs Evil; Blood, Gore and Violence and Psychological Disorders in Macbeth. Giving background information and quotes for you to learn, as well as an exam questions to practice with.
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Macbeth
Good vs Evil:
Background;
• The term Gothic has roots in Germanic languages, referring to a German tribe called
the Goths
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• The romantic writers such as Shelley, Byron Verlaine and Baudelaire capture this
central thread of good vs evil within gothic history in their work
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• Throughout history, ‘Goth’s’ have been seen as evil and different in society, not
following the norms
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Quotes;
• “Sleep no more! Macbeth does murder sleep, the innocent sleep
...
”
• “is this a dagger which I see before me, the blade handle toward my hand?”
• “All hail Macbeth! Thane of Glamis”
• “Out dammed spot! Out I say! One, two: why… blood in him”
• “fair is foul, foul is fair”
• “look like the innocent flower, but be the serpent under it”
• “not in the legions of horrid hell can come a devil more dammed in evils to top
Macbeth”
Practice exam question;
• How is good pitted against evil dramatically in Macbeth?
Blood, Gore and Violence:
Background;
• Revelled in by Jacobean audiences
• Displayed on stage using animal guts/blood
• Violence is a key theme throughout lots of plays, especially the tragedies
Quotes;
• “Come you spirit that tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here and fill me from
crown to the toe top full of direst cruelty; make thick my blood” -‐ Lady Macbeth
• “I would, while it was smiling in my face have pluck’d my nipple from his boneless
gums and dash’d the brains out” – Lady Macbeth
• “I see thee still, and on thy blade and dungeon gouts of blood, which was not so
before” – Macbeth
• “Pour in sow’s blood, that hath eaten her nine farrow” – First Witch
• “What bloody man is that?” – Duncan
• “So they Doubly redoubled strokes upon the foe
...
” – Captain
• “Thous seest the heavens, as troubled with man’s act, threatens his bloody stage
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Psychological disorder:
Background;
• Things to have thought to have caused psychological disorders, physical illness,
especially fever; astrological influences; a sinful lack of faith in God’s mercy, resulting
in despair; difficulties in love; and demonic possession
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Quotes;
• “Me thought I heard a voice cry” – Macbeth
• “Thy bones are marrow less, thy blood is cold; thou hast no speculation in those
eyes/which thou dost glare with” – Macbeth
• “I have almost forgot the taste of fears
...
” – Macduff
Title: Good Vs Evil; Blood, Gore and Violence and Psychological Disorders in Macbeth
Description: These are sixth form notes from English Literature on Good vs Evil; Blood, Gore and Violence and Psychological Disorders in Macbeth. Giving background information and quotes for you to learn, as well as an exam questions to practice with.
Description: These are sixth form notes from English Literature on Good vs Evil; Blood, Gore and Violence and Psychological Disorders in Macbeth. Giving background information and quotes for you to learn, as well as an exam questions to practice with.