Act1 Scene 7 Tallia, Adam, Mikylla, Cleo

 Macbeth expresses his concern about the murder towards Lady Macbeth.  Lady Macbeth starts to question Macbeth’s manliness and basically calls him a coward.  Lady Macbeth convinces Macbeth to follow through with the murder.

 Theme of Ambition  Macbeth: “I have no spur to pick the sides of my intent, but only vaulting ambition, which overlaps itself” (I.vii.25-27).

Scene Purpose  Theme of Appearances versus Reality  Macbeth: “False face must hide what the false heart doth know” (I.vii.92).

Scene Purpose  Theme of Manliness  Lady Macbeth: “And, to be more than what you were, you would be so much more the man” (I.vii.55, 56).

Scene Purpose  Sets up plot development  Rising action  They plan to murder Duncan. In some sense, it’s a turning point. They would start to open the door to a dark and sinful world.

Scene Purpose  Lady Macbeth’s character  …Stronger, more ruthless, and more ambitious than Macbeth. Even she would dare to smash the baby’s brains out(I.vii.63).  …She is a masculinity soul inhabiting a female body(I.vii.80-82).

Scene Purpose  Lady Macbeth’s character  Manipulates her husband by questioning his manhood.  …Women can be as ambitious as cruel as men, in contrast to Macbeth that he is less than a man.  Also, it foreshadows her insanity afterward…

 It uses soliloquy…  Imagery made by repetition of words “if”, “were”, “done” prove it’s his train of thought.

 Personification  “Pity as a baby” symbolizes helplessness; Pity as an angel symbolizes innocence.  Macbeth:“ The deep damnation of his taking off; And pity, like a naked new-born babe, Striding the blast, or heaven’s cherubin horsed; Upon the sightless couriers of the air, Shall blow the horrid deed in every eye, That tears shall drown the wind.”(I.vii.20-25)

√ Imagery  Blood comes to symbolize their guilt.  “bloody instructions”(I.vii.9).  Macbeth:“When we have mark’d with blood those sleepy two”(I.vii.83).

 Macbeth: “We still have judgment here; that we but teach bloody instructions, which being taught return to plague the inventor”(I.vii.8-10).  It foreshadows the way that his deeds will eventually come back to haunt him.

 Imagery: Darkness  We hear of “bloody instructions” (I.vii.9) and a “poisoned chalice”(I.vii.11), It suggests that Macbeth is aware of how the murder would open the door to a dark and sinful world.