You are taking your own notes on Macbeth.
pathetic fallacy
Morality plays
The Divine Right of Kings
hierarchy
aristocracy - THANES (earl, baron, lord, duke, etc)
feudal system - king gives stuff to baron, dukes, lords, THANES, etc
Stuff means estates, land and titles
WIth stuff like that comes a bunch of responsibilities and a bunch of serfs (peasant farmers who work the land the lords were given)
Peasants own nothing. Peasants get subsistence - enough to eat.
There is a warrior class that rules - these lords, and their close friends and followers, are called KNIGHTS - the ruling class was a warrior class - they didn’t do farm work because they had the job of fighting when the king said. Remember those responsibilities? This is the big one.
Teenagers were great knights! Crazy, self-confident to a fault, easy to manipulate, more violent, etc.
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