CROWN AND KING
EXPLANATION OF THE MOTIF.
The motif of crown and kingship in Macbeth represents pow
need to rule. Throughout the play, the crown symbolizes
ambition to be king and the struggles that come with it. A
power, he becomes more guilty and paranoid, showing how t
control can lead to dangerous actions and consequences.
QUOTES: Act 2
Wherefore could not I pronounce
Act 1 “Amen?”I had most need of blessing, a
“Amen”Stuck in my throat. (II,ii,40-42
“Hail to thee, thane of Glamis! All hail, Macbeth!
Hail to thee, thane of Cawdor! All hail, Macbeth,
Why, worthy thane,You do unbend you
that shalt be king hereafter!” (I,III,49-52)
noble strength to think So brainsickly
“If chance will have me king why, chance may
things. (II,ii,55-57)
crown me without my stir” (I, III, 158)
Act 4
“a child crowned with a tree in his
Act 3 “To crown my thoughts with acts, be it thought
"Upon my head they placed a fruitless
crown, Act 5
And put a barren scepter in my gripe,
Thence to be wrenched with an unlineal “Then yield thee,coward, and live to be
hand, show and gaze of the time.”
No son of mine succeeding." (III.i.67-70)
"But now I am cabined, cribbed, confined, bound in / “Hail, king, for so tou art. behold wh
EXPLANATION OF THE MOTIF.
The motif of crown and kingship in Macbeth represents pow
need to rule. Throughout the play, the crown symbolizes
ambition to be king and the struggles that come with it. A
power, he becomes more guilty and paranoid, showing how t
control can lead to dangerous actions and consequences.
QUOTES: Act 2
Wherefore could not I pronounce
Act 1 “Amen?”I had most need of blessing, a
“Amen”Stuck in my throat. (II,ii,40-42
“Hail to thee, thane of Glamis! All hail, Macbeth!
Hail to thee, thane of Cawdor! All hail, Macbeth,
Why, worthy thane,You do unbend you
that shalt be king hereafter!” (I,III,49-52)
noble strength to think So brainsickly
“If chance will have me king why, chance may
things. (II,ii,55-57)
crown me without my stir” (I, III, 158)
Act 4
“a child crowned with a tree in his
Act 3 “To crown my thoughts with acts, be it thought
"Upon my head they placed a fruitless
crown, Act 5
And put a barren scepter in my gripe,
Thence to be wrenched with an unlineal “Then yield thee,coward, and live to be
hand, show and gaze of the time.”
No son of mine succeeding." (III.i.67-70)
"But now I am cabined, cribbed, confined, bound in / “Hail, king, for so tou art. behold wh
