Characters
This character confesses to murder while sleepwalking.
Lady Macbeth
Famous outdoor theater where Shakespeare's plays were performed.
Globe Theater
“Fair is foul and foul is fair: Hover through the fog and filthy air.”
The witches
a pair of related terms or concepts that are opposite in meaning
binary opposition
New title that Duncan gives Macbeth after his success in battle.
Thane of Cawdor
King of Scotland at the opening of the play.
King Duncan
Expression that combines opposite ideas.
Paradox
“Come you spirits, That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here.”
Lady Macbeth
Ferdinand de Saussure.
These men are drugged, murdered, and framed for killing the king.
The king's guards
Ghost that appears at the banquet.
Banquo
Minor character that has opposite trait as the main character.
Foil
"Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more."
Macbeth
Study of narrative elements that work in relation to one another.
Narratology
This image leads Macbeth to Duncan.
Dagger
King of Scotland at the end of the play.
Malcolm
The group of playwrights and actors supported by James I.
The King's Men
"Unnatural deeds
do breed unnatural troubles."
The Doctor
"psychological imprint" of a sound that makes an impression on our senses (AKA sound-image)
signifier
He survives his father's murder.
Fleance
Pretends the castle is Hell on the night of Duncan's murder.
Porter
Group that held the theater in low regard.
Moralists (or Puritans)
“So withered and wild in their attire, / That look not like th’inhabitants o’th’earth and yet are on't”
Banquo
concept or essence of something that a sound-image names.
signfied
The reason Macduff is able to kill Macbeth.
Not of woman born (C-section)