Act 1 Flashcards
Pardox said by the witches that runs through the whole play
‘Fair is foul and foul is fair’
Supernatural theme created at the start to show how people imagined ghosts
‘Hover through the fog and filthy air’
‘Fog and filthy’ suggests the ghosts are dirty and evil/uncleansed
Quote from the captain to show macdonwald as a bad person
‘The merciless macdonald’
Quote from the captain in which he praises Macbeth and shows that Macbeths fate lies in his own hands
‘Brave Macbeth - well he deserves that name - disdaining fortune with his brandish’d steel’
Quote from the captain to show that nothing stood in Macbeths way and that he was forceful and focused
‘Which smok’d with bloody execution, like valors minion carv’d out his passage’
Links to him pathing the way of his own fate. This quote links to him later becoming a tyrant
Violent imagery used by captain to show macbeths actions
‘He unseamed him from the nave to th’chaps and fixed his head upon our battlements’
The metaphorical image of him being “unseamed” has gruesome connotations
Quote by the captain to show Macbeth as being dangerous and brave
‘As sparrows, eagles, or the hare, the lion’
Macbeth is the eagle or lion - predator
Witches prophecy towards Macbeth being king
‘All hail Macbeth, hail to thee thane of cawdor, all hail macbeth thalt shalt be king hereafter’
Rhetorical question from banquo alluding to the supernatural when asking if the prophecies are real
‘Are ye fantastical, or that indeed’
Macbeth first imagines killing duncan and regrets it
‘Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair’
Quote from duncan to foreshadow Macbeths betrayal
‘he was a gentleman on whom i had built absolute trust’
Motif of light and dark while Macbeth speaks his thoughts
‘Stars hide your fires, let not light see my black and deep desires’
Quote to show macbeth sees his wife as equal - strange as in these times women were thought to be second class - shows power of lady M
‘My dearest partner of greatness’
Quote from Lady M asking for her female traits and human traits to be taken away
‘Unsex me here and fill me from the crown to the toe topfull of direst cruelty’
Quote from Lady M to show she wants her goodness removed
‘Take my milk for gall’
Hints at the supernatural