hi guys welcome to some quick points and if you are studying macbeth i'm going to look at um is this a dagger speech which you can find a video on my youtube channel for and on my instagram if you scroll and just how we would take and move around the play the reason i'm doing that again is because um in my experience students are using references from that section is this a dagger and they can't really analyze it well and or move around the place what i'm going to do is show you just how we can use single words from that um speech by a macbeth actually one and be able to move around and bring in other things such as the witches and lady macbeth so within this um section mark beth says um about obviously the hallucination he says that it's a dagger of the mind a false creation look at shakespeare's punctuation there as well guys we know we can reference the iambic pentameter here and interestingly the iambic pentameter for me in this speech does a couple of things one is macbeth obviously here he's trying to make this difficult decision about whether or not he should commit regicide and um the iambic pentameter's unstressed stress syllable unstressed syllable count and kind of signifies the notion that he is confused and conflicted between committing the regicide and not being immoral and being moral being good versus bad heaven hell which is referenced at the end of the section and what we can then do is bring in the goddess of the witches and i never pronounced sinning right but she is mentioned in this speech as well which is he kid or heck it however you want to pronounce it and she's brought into the playlist ron in act four and not only and again it's on my instagram it's on my youtube is she the god s of the witches but she is the goddess of crossroads e crossroads so if we are talking about act two scene one the decision that macbeth has got to make and we've got this crossroads of shia and she like looking i shall not shall i abide by god's great chain of being or shall i defy it and you shoot with the king then again it's perfectly placed we are obviously aware um when act 2 scene 2 begins that he has chosen the wrong path albeit you might argue influenced by the witches influenced by lady macbeth fiat whatever you want whichever way you look at it our tragic hero has unfortunately brought about the chain of events which is obviously the parapati if you are doing greek tragedy and aristotle and this the reversal of his fortune and if i just go back up to what i was saying about a dagger of the mind pause a false creation that pause a dagger of the mind is reminding us about one theory which is called jung in terms of psychology the shadow that part of our brain that exists the dark part of our brain and the the psychological argument is that everybody has it and i suppose there's an argument that the more we suppress it the the fact that it it it becomes stronger isn't it and it comes out roaring if you like and macbeth suppresses this ambition doesn't he until it's there in front of him so this pause the dagger of the mind and false creation is huge um by macbeth if you are looking at um a grade nine or if you are doing this um at a level please check out my my other video because i talk about the trophy again version and within this speech and the trophy conversion guys so you've got the iron pentameter the trophic inversion places stress in just a separate section of the speech um and again your inversion is shakespeare playing with where he stresses and magnifies particular words um this idea as well of a dagger of the mind is fabulous for us because if we are moving around the play concisely and effectively then a dagger of the mind later on in in act 3 uh all full of scorpions is my mind so the dagger we can argue obviously a dagger is sharp it hurts if it's in his brain it then becomes his full-blown hallucination and he follows it to the king's chamber to kill the king it is plaguing his his mentality his thoughts his black and deep desires which again we can reference at the start of the play so we're moving around really effectively um and the dagger that's hurting my breath um develops to become all full of scorpions is my mind and we know what the scorpion does it's venomous um so he's poisoned which we can then go back to lady macbeth's opening and talk about the goal reference and chastise with the valor of my tongue and all of the references to poison that she gives us um and again this idea that they almost infect him to a certain extent if you're going to argue uh the power of the influence of a lima within the witches um so again you can argue that you know his mentality digresses and of course it does from our brave soldier to our dead butcher if you like and the other thing about this section when he says wicked dreams abuse and we're moving around the plate wicked something wicked this way comes fast forwards in act four so not only is the word wicked synonymous with evil we know that it comes from root word wiccan which is again linked to the root word witch so they are embedded within his mentality all the witches and and also you can talk about um the idea here of when the witches see something wicked this way comes they are talking about macbeth but they don't recognize him so they say he's a thing and when they see that he's wicked look what has happened um they take away his humanity by calling him a thing which is really interesting because after the murder he refers to himself in the third person he says macbeth does murder sleep now it's as if he doesn't recognize himself so he steps almost outside of himself and says macbeth it's not often we we talk about ourselves in the third person like that and then the witches argue that something wicked this becomes as if they they don't know it's him that they they aren't even aware of what they've caused because at the start of the play they were waiting for macbeth on the heath yeah so it's almost as if their little gear when their puppetry has almost backfired to a certain extent we can um analyze abuse as well because we can just take literal meaning of abuse there talk about corrupting someone manipulating someone um hurting someone if it's abuse it's probably going to be traumatic as well and the trauma i suppose in terms of macbeth is that he goes on to be become murderous if you like um and the aftermath of that um also within the speech as i say we get the the juxtaposition of heaven and hell and what's investing is that we end on the word hell so that is wonderful syntax by william shakespeare the fact that he uses his syntax to order it in terms of heaven and hell he puts heaven first he's literally showing you the chronological downfall of macabeth in terms of his behavior and his actions heaven obviously linked into our our tragic hero of great esteem at the start of this play as we would expect from that aristotle um tragic greek hero if you like um and then hell which is where he's going to end up for blasphemy and the defining of god and the punishment that he's going to face and as is she remember that one of her last lines um in in act five is his hell is murky so again she references eternal punishment um and i suppose the suffering that they both endure because of their uh ambition because of aiming too high because of um wanting what isn't theirs uh we also get that section about witchcraft celebrates as well um which probably put in the same section as wicked or i would in terms of just um writing about you know similar things concisely but witchcraft celebrates um reminds me of the juggling things and that reference at the end as if as if it is a game as if they are the public masters and they are working on macbeth to get him to do satan's job which is uh to to annoy god isn't it really and remove his monarch and this idea of them celebrating is i think almost that moment of acknowledgement that the witches have overpowered him um and i suppose what we can what we can then do when we're talking about the juggling fiends is that they have to juggle with him don't they and he acknowledges through the word fiend that they are working for the devil so the witchcraft celebrates it's a fantastic one because they give him the prophecy he commits the murder it's like game over really isn't it in terms of um his rein a within the play and b with on the throne um so again you can be a referencing that as well witchcraft celebrates um all of the references to the dagger um again not a massive fan of is this a dagger i see before me just because we tend to um not have a great analysis um in terms of my own experience of reading essays but if we're going to reference that then perhaps we can move across the player to when macros says there's daggers in men's smiles because actually that's an um a link to deceptiveness being deceitful um and then again he he's almost well he is talking about himself as me in terms of the serpent as well um and and and what how that deceives eve so the daggers in men's smiles can lingus to the dagger that we are talking about here and obviously on literal level he stabs the king with the dagger doesn't he so it is the weapon of choice um to stab the king in his sleep with a dagger as well i would argue is a personal killing because he's going to be right on top of him in that really close space so imagine again the trauma of that um and and we know what the sleep reference does not only have i mentioned my question of murder sleep but it's mentioned in the speech when he says couldn't sleep and again any reference to sleep and the inability to sleep is a reference to guilt it's the the removal of someone's innocence and the removal of their peace so we know that macbeth obviously off the back of this event will be tormented as will she i hope this was useful you can find loads on my youtube stacy ray um free and on my instagram again absolutely loads on 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