Order - Macbeth

What constitutes order in the play Macbeth?

In the play Macbeth, by Shakespeare, the social hierarchy that is naturalised in the play through the use of a King who leads by divine right constitutes order. Order is also constituted by gender due to Lady Macbeth wanting to remove her feminine traits.

At the start of the play, what is Macbeth rewarded for?

• Being brave
• Being brave to his country and his people
•  What he used that bravery for – using it in support to King and country and thereby defeating the enemy
• Used his courage and physical strength in a good way
• If killing is out of loyalty then it is awarded

What is the first Thane of Cawdor punished for?

•  Punished for being disloyal
•  Going against king and country

When Macbeth kills Duncan, what is his immediate response? What does his intense feeling of guilt tell us?

•  Intense guilt
• He will never get over it
•  He is on edge after it to
• Scared
• Macbeth shall sleep no more – sleep is being actuated with having a conscience that is not guilty
•  Killing isn’t the problem, its who he has killed
• He has destroyed the natural order – not loyal to the King
• Act 1 – Scene 4 (good quotes there) 

Chaos ensues for Scotland. What does this tell us about what Macbeth has done?

• It tells us that he has destroyed the natural order

What occurs in the natural world when Duncan is murdered? Why? What does this tell us?

•  The natural world has gone crazy to
• Act 2 – Scene 4 (affects in the natural world)
•  Day time but its dark
• A falcon should not be able to be killed by an owl, but yet it did
• Pointing out that what Macbeth has done has destroyed the natural order

When Macbeth is killed and Malcolm regains the throne that happens to Scotland?

•  The natural order is restored

What does Lady Macbeth contribute to the order?

• She asks to unsex herself, so that she can do what she did without feeling feminine emotions