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Fair is foul and foul is fair

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The witches chorus

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So foul and fair a day I have not seen

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Opening lines of Macbeth
directly linked him to witches

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The brave Macbeth

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Macbeth was loyal and brave

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Worthy gentleman

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Duncan referung to macbeth as worthy

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Bellona’s bridegroom

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Macbeth was initially a strong man

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No more that Thane of Cawdor shall deceive / Our bosom interest

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Irony as macbeth ends up betraying him too

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Weird sisters

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Wierddddddd

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So foul and fair a day i have not seen

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Macbeths opening lines directly link him to witches

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My noble partner

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Banquo referred to Macbeth as noble

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The earth hath bubbles, as the water has / And these are of them

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banquo saying not to trust the witches
He is the voice of reason

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Would they had stay’d

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Macbeths dissapointment that the witches left

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Speak, I charge you.

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Macbeth being arrogant to witches

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What , can the devil speak true?

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Banquo is shockied by the fact that the witches prophecy has come through

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Why do you dress me / In borrow’d robes?

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Clothing imagery. Macbeth is referring to a stolen title, the thane of cawdor

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to win us to our harm, / The instruments of darkness tell us truths

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Banquo referring to the supernatural as instruments of darkness. He is warning Macbeth to not trust the witches. He is aware.

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nothing is, / But what is not

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Appearance versus reality, macbeth thinking about murdering king duncan. It is ambiguous and a sign of unclear thoughts - nothing exists except that which is non-existent.

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This supernatural solociting / Cannot be ill, cannot be good.

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Macbeth is torn about his encounter with the supernatural

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If chance will have me king, why chance may crown me
Without my stir.

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Macbeth saying that he will not lift a finger if he’s distance to be King as if it’s meant to be it will be. Fate versus free will

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My dull brain was wrought / With things forgotten

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Macbeth said that he was lost in thought when in reality, he was thinking of the witches. This is the beginning of his honesty slipping away.

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There’s no art / to find the mind’s construction in the face.

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King Duncan, talking about how you would never judge someone’s true intentions from just looking at them
Appearance versus reality

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Stars, hide your fires, / Let not light see my black and deep desires.

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Macbeth asking the darkness to cover his crime. Dramatic irony.

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My dearest partner of greatness

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Macbeth and Lady Macbeth have a special and intimate relationship

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Unsex me here

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Lady Macbeth is asking the evil spirits to become her Ruler. Demonic possession.

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a book where men / may read strange matters

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Lady Macbeth is telling Macbeth that his face is really easy to read

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Look like th’ innocent flower, But be the serpent under’t
Appearance versus reality, Lady Macbeth is telling Macbeth to act as a friend to Duncan
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Fair and Noble hostess
Ironic, as Lady Macbeth was planning to kill him.
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I have no spur / To prick the sides of my intent, but only / vaulting ambition
Macbeths soliloquy before he murders Duncan. He is pondering whether he should kill him, and he says that his ambition is pushing him to do things.
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I dare do all that may become a man; Who dares do more is none
Macbeth says that killing, a man is not being one, it’s being a traitor
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Have pluck’d my nipples from his boneless gums / and dash’d the brains out, had i so sworn
Lady Macbeth defying gender roles saying that she would have killed her own child if he asked her to
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When you durst do it, then you were a man
Lady Macbeth is questioning his manhood, saying that he will only be a man if he committed the murder
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False face must hide what the false heart doth know
Appearance versus reality, Macbeth saying that they should hide their true colours
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There’s husbandry in heaven, Their candles are all out
Banquo is saying how dark the sky is. Destruction of natural order and darkness imagery
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Had he not resembled / my father as he slept, I had done’t.
Lady Macbeth’s little bit of humanity showing as she doesn’t hurt those that she loves
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I heard the owl scream and the crickets cry
Lady Macbeth, saying what she heard when Duncans murder was committed. Nature is upset.
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Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood / clean from my hand?
Macbeth is extremely guilty he’s in such a state of shock he will always feel guilty. Blood imagery.
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Some say, the Earth was feverous and did shake + The night has been unruly
Lennox saying how the night braught chaos and natural order was challenged
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To show an unfelt sorrow is an office / which the false man does easy.
Malcolm showing appearance versus reality as there is hypocritical behaviour. The traitor shows sorrow as an act and Malcolm is escaping to England
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Where we are, there’s daggers in men’s smiles
Donald Bain, showing appearance versus reality, as they are backstabbers around them
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‘Tis unnatural, Even like the deed that’s done
Ross saying how what’s happening is unnatural, just like the regicide
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What are the three ominous happenings of act2 scene4
1. It’s daytime, but incredibly dark 2. A falcon was eaten by an owl 3. The horses of Duncan rebelled against the masters and ‘they eat eachother’
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Good of bad, and friends of foes
Old man, showing how bad things are good and friends are enimies. Appearance vs reality.
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To be thus is nothing
Macbeth in his sololoquy is saying how being king is useless if he still feels unsafe,
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‘Tis safer to be that which we destroy / Than by destruction dwell in doubtful joy
Lady Macbeth is saying that it’s better to be dead like Duncan, because he now has nothing to worry about like she does. This shows her guilt and worry catching up to her
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Make our faces vizards to our hearts, Disguising what they are.
Macbeth showing appearance versus reality. He is saying that they should hide their true intentions and feelings.
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O, full of scorpions is my mind
Macbeth telling Lady Macbeth that he is an anxious pain because of his anxiety
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Be innocent of the knowledge, dearest chuck
The innocence and power roles in the relationship are changing. Macbeth would rather her not know what he is going to do.
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Are you a man?
When Macbeth sees Banquos ghost at the banquet, she questioned his manhood once again
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It will have blood they say; blood will have blood
Macbeth saying that once he started the murdering he’s going to have to continue to cover it up. It is like a Rolling Stone that keeps going
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This tyrant, whose sole name, blisters our tongues, Was once thought honest
Malcolm admitting how initially everyone admired macbeth, but is now thought to be a tyrant and heated by everyone
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This fiend of Scotland
Macduff, showing how Macbeth is portrayed by everyone by the end of the play
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Out, damned spot!
Eternal damnation
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All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand.
Lady Macbeth can’t dismiss the stench of blood as she is so guilty, she can’t think straight. It is a hyperbole.
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More needs she the divine than the physcician
The doctor saying that lady Macbeth is in need of a priest to confess , not a doctor whose medicine will be of no use to her sick brain
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Those he commands, move only in command, Nothing in love
The people only obey him because they’re afraid not because they respect Macbeth. -Angus
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Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow
She should have died Later, not at such a crucial moment
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Out, out, breif candle
He compares the life to a candle that has been blown out too soon
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It is a tale told by an idiot
Macbeth is saying that life is meaningless and foolish, and that it is a story told by a stupo9d person
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Hell-hound
Macbeth is being referred to as an inhumane creature
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And be these juggling fiends no more beleive’d
Macbeth was horrified to discover that macduff was born by C-section, contradicting The Prophecy as he can now kill him. He realises that he should have never trusted the witches as they always use the ambiguous language.
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Fiend-like queen
Malcolm referred a lady Macbeth as a devil
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“Wild in nature”
Duncan’s horses turned what?
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The darkness during the day
dark night strangles the travelling lamp
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dark night strangles the travelling lamp
The darkness during the day
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Your beards forbid me to interpret / that you are so
Gender roles of the witches.
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A little water clears us of this deed
Lady m doesn’t even care about what they’ve just done, she feels not guilty
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Caithness recognises Malcolm as the doctor who can cure scotlands sickness, calling him the what?
Med’cine of the sickly weal
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Malcolm and Macduff after the news of his family
Dispute it like a man (Malcolm) I must also feel it as a man (macduff)
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Macbeth doesn’t fit the title of being king anymore
dwarfish theif

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