LITERATURE NOTES
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may have to zoom it coz there's lots of words..
it's about lady macbeth and a typical elizabethan woman:)
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I realise i've been uploading notes like nobody's business..haha...those who have notes please upload them too!!! (eh sorry for spamming so much ah!)
yep well, here's another mindmap for you
it's about Macbeth's soliloquoy in Act 1 Scene 7, you know, when he was debating with himself whether to kill Duncan (credits to Aloycia's notes:)
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Hello people! Just some points I thought of while revising. Good luck for tomorrow yeah!
IRONIC:
1. In Act 2 Scene 2, Lady Macbeth told Macbeth that ' a little water clears us of the deed', meaning that just by washing the blood off their hands, their guilts could be erased. However, in Act 5 Scene 1, Lady Macbeth continuously repeats the action of washing her hands for at least 'a quarter of an hour'. This contradicts her theory of being able to wash off their guilt, and in actual fact, she is unable to get rid of the guilt inside of her.
2. In Act 1 Scene 7, Lady Macbeth said that she would 'pluck'd my nipple from his boneless gums' and 'dash'd the brains out' if she had promised to. This reveals Lady Macbeth's courage and that she was even willing to kill her own child. However, in Act 2 Scene 2, Lady Macbeth said that 'had he not resembled my father as he slept', she would have 'done't', meaning that she did not dare to kill Duncan because he resembled her father. This contradicts herself as she told Macbeth that she would kill her own child, but yet she was not willing to kill someone that was not her kin, but only resembled her father.
LOVE FOR EACH OTHER [this i'm not sure.]
1. People in love are said to have telepathy. In Act 5 Scene 1, Lady Macbeth exclaimed that 'all the perfume of Arabia would not sweeten this little hand'. This is an almost perfect echo of Macbeth in Act 2 Scene 2.(Macbeth said 'will all great Neptune's wash this blood clean from my hand?') We must remember that Lady Macbeth was not present at the time of Macbeth's soliloquy. This shows that they are truly in love and share similar thoughts.
Stuff I post below this line of words, credits to my brother. However, I don't know which applies so I'll just type out all
ELEMENTS OF FICTION
Character:
- Point-of-view Character: Character whose perspective the audience experiences the story(or scene in our case), represents the POV that the audience will empathize or sympathize with.
E.G. In Act 1 Scene 7 (Macbeth's soliloquy), it is told in Macbeth's POV. His true feelings are revealed and don't you as a reader feel a little sympathetic? After all, he's very 'wei nan', trapped between his heart and his ambition.
Theme:
- Broad idea/message conveyed by text/mostly implied rather than explicitly stated
- Conflict is a very classic theme
' man vs man'/'man vs society'/'man vs nature'/'man vs self'
-Redemption is also a theme
Style:
-How something is written and interpreted
-Literary devices/ Narrator/ POV/ Tone/imagery/diction/symbolism
-Devices manipulated to create a style or mood
-Communicative effect created by author's style called story's voice.
Checkhov's Gun-element introduced early in the story/no significance until the end
Ellipsis-Omitting portion of sequence of events, allow reader to fill narrative gaps
Historical Present-Narrating past events while using the present tense
Flashback/Analopsis-External(out of narrative), Internal(in narrative)
Incluing-World building, clues reader into the world without them knowing.
Allegory-Figurative mode of representation conveying meaning that is not literal.
Apophasis-Mention by not mentioning (-.- right)
There's more but I don't think it applies at all. So yeah.
Oh, unseen may be a diary entry, because Ms Ng rushed to finish explaining. And Irony too. So, good luck!
Love,
Jessica.
kind of last minute, but I hope this helps!!!
Macbeth’s imagination and conscience
Act 1 sc 3
His imagination conjures up such a vivid picture of himself murdering Duncan that he is paralysed by sheer horror , the “horrid image” makes his “seated heart knocked at his ribs” and “doth unfix my hair” and his “function is smothered in surmise”
His conscience acts through his imagination and leads to a struggle between conscience and ambition. His horror at the thought of committing murder comes more from the evil of the act than the act itself because as a warrior, he is used to and unafraid to kill. Ross describes Macbeth as not fearing the “Strange images of death” he made on the battlefield. He is able to kill so fearlessly because his conscience is clear since he is doing it for country and king, but killing the king is doing something against his conscience and that’s why he’s so scared of the “horrible imaginings”
Act 1 sc 5
Macbeth is “too full o’ the milk of human kindness” according to Lady Macbeth to be able to “catch the nearest way”. He has a conscience which Lady Macbeth is afraid will not let him commit regicide. “he wouldst highly that wouldst thou holily”, which means his conscience makes him want to do the right things, which does not include killing a king, but his ambition and moral weakness eventually convinced him to commit the murder.
Act 1 sc 7
He argued with himself that he should not kill Duncan because he is his “kinsmen and his subject”. His conscience works through his imagination to conjure up an image of what the world will be like if he murdered Duncan. He imagined Duncan’s virtues “plead like angels, trumpet tongued”, as well as “pity” crying like a “naked new born babe”. He also imagined that “tears shall drown the wind”. He imagined the world to be literally crying at the death of Duncan and this is a very wild image that could only be thought up by someone with an extremely vivid imagination. It will not be possible though without a conscience, and thus Macbeth can be seen as a man with strong conscience and a vivid imagination.
Act 2 Sc 2
Macbeth has a powerful imagination and conscience. This is shown when his conscience works through his imagination and it filled him with sheer horror at the act he has committed. He imagines that he hears a voice crying out that “Macbeth does murder sleep” and “shall sleep no more”. This is obviously his hallucination and it clearly conveys that he will never have peace of mind again. This also suggests that Macbeth is very guilty due to his act and deeply regrets doing it. Moreover, his horror is so strong that he is unable to look at what he has done and refuses to return Duncan’s room to return the daggers. His sense of guilt is so deep that he feels not even “all great Neptune’s ocean” can wash the blood, symbolizing his guilt, from his hands but his hand would turn the “multitudinous seas incarnadine”. His heartfelt wish was that the knocking could “Wake Duncan” sowing how deeply he regrets over the murder and the fact that he had actually committed one badly affects him. Macbeth’s conscience speaks using his imagination, by making Macbeth imagine voices, images and thoughts like the red oceans to successfully make him feel guilty.
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i dont know if you girls have this or not but i'll just post it here!
IRONY~
Act 1 Scene 3
1) ROSS (addressing Macbeth)
And, for an earnest of a greater honour,
He bade me, from him, call thee thane of Cawdor:
In which addition, hail, most worthy thane!
For it is thine.
irony:
Macbeth’s appearance as a courageous soldier of king Duncan, a hero. In reality, he is a traitor. Macbeth given title of Thane of Cawdor; the previous Thane of Cawdor was a traitor. Macbeth is ironically succeeding a position tainted by the traitorship and becomes a traitor himself.
2) LADY MACBETH
Come, thick night,
And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell,
That my keen knife see not the wound it makes,
Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark,
To cry 'Hold, hold!'
irony:
Lady Macbeth is praying for divine intervention to help her commit the crime. A prayer is usually understood to be an appeal to the divine good but here, she is ironically appealing to evil spirits. Lady Macbeth calls upon evil spirits to desensitize her so that she may commit to the murder. She wants the evil spirits to strip her of the conscience. She succeeds in the cold heartedly committing the crime as desired, but ironically, her success does not immunize her against the wave of her conscience. It still spirals her into a spiritual and mental torture when the burden of the crime weighs upon her.
3) LADY MACBETH (speaking to Macbeth)
and you shall put
This night's great business into my dispatch;
Which shall to all our nights and days to come
Give solely sovereign sway and masterdom.
irony:
Lady Macbeth tell Macbeth to entrust her with planning the crime, showing her criminal will. However, when it comes to the killing itself, she is ironically unable to commit it as she cannot summon her criminal will, claiming that King Duncan resembled her father. Lady Macbeth has called for an alliance with evil spirits before this and she believes that the witches’ prophecies will bring them joy. Here, she is going to plan the murder and she is projecting that their days and night henceforth from the murder will be different; that of glory, luxury and power. However, the irony of her statement is that their days are indeed different after the crimes; they are miserable and suffering from mental agony- the exact of what they had desired.
These deeds must not be thought
After these ways; so, it will make us mad.
irony:
You do unbend your noble strength, to think
So brainsickly of things.
A little water clears us of this deed:
How easy is it, then!
irony:
Lady Macbeth dismissed a paranoia in Act 2 scene 2 by telling him that after they wash their hands of Duncan’s blood, no one will know that they were the murderers. Her attitude towards the murder was pragmatic, and concerned only about getting rid of the physical consequences. However, in act 5 scene 1, her spiritual and mental agony manifests when she repeats the act of washing her hands obsessively; showing starkly that the taint of a murder is never “easy” to be rid of.
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