ENGL 1616 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Banquo, Gunpowder Plot, Elizabethan Era
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Elizabethan age: period of relative political economic stability. Before and after there were invasions and it was a constant wartime state. Motif: knowledge vs. action: begins at the first meeting between the witches, macbeth and. Not about the knowledge about how the knowledge interacts with a person, their state, their prior knowledge, their mood, their likes/ dislikes etc. Macbeth and lady macbeth are missing an heir/ replacement to the crown. Act 2 scene 1: dark and gothic precursor, (cid:862)the (cid:373)oo(cid:374) is do(cid:449)(cid:374)(cid:863) flea(cid:374)(cid:272)e (cid:374)o (cid:373)oo(cid:374) aka (cid:448)ery dark out. No moon, no stars a good night for the abomination of killing the king. Cross weaving of themes, lines, people etc. Macbeth sees the dagger and believes that it is a false creation: (cid:862)dagger of the (cid:373)i(cid:374)d(cid:863) Ma(cid:272)(cid:271)eth k(cid:374)o(cid:449)s it"s a (cid:373)oral a(cid:271)o(cid:373)i(cid:374)atio(cid:374) to kill the ki(cid:374)g a(cid:374)d k(cid:374)o(cid:449)s that he will pay but he does it anyways because of his ambition and stress.
