Macbeth notes

-Guy wants to become king, they kill many ppl & ghost come back to haunt them... in the end Macbeth and his wife defeated
-distinguished factor of heros we know is they dnt want to be heroes
-evolution of hero is they became  antihero
-Claudius is an evil guy in king robes
-king supposed to be good because he's supposed to be the closest thing to God
-tone sinister
-Macbeth is evil play
-everything is steaming & dirty & bloody
-1606 play written
-James I fascinated by witchcraft
- banquo & fleance --- inherited thrown through them
-real rein 1040 to 1057 Macbeth
-ducen murder well known
-ruled for 17 yrs
-Scotland & England on good terms
-Shakespeare's Macbeth felt bad for killing king
-Macbeth is an animal
-"fair is fowl & fowl is fair" paradox
-witches were compared to darkness & death
-society telling us " desperate to be good so we'll show you bad"
-why witchcraft was needed
-2 yrs before Macbeth written witchcraft became a capital crime
-banquo realized ability of witchcraft
-witches could do many things
-bodies of unbaptized babies were a prize to witches
-supernatural villian
-end -- satisfying seeing Macbeth get bad misfortunes
-witches not dishonest
-they dnt deceive Macbeth but they dnt stop him from deceiving himself
-temptation