MACBETH - THEMES

• Fair and Foul, and Foul is Fair
• Ambition
• The qualities of a king, and a leader
• the number three and its multiples
• bird imagery
• ill-fitting garments (the clothes make the man)
• femininity vs. masculinity
• blood imagery
• classical and Biblical allusions
• sleep = death
• Life is meaningless
• Insanity, and how we define it
• Witchcraft and dark/evil forces/spirits