Act 1 Flashcards

1
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Pardox said by the witches that runs through the whole play

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‘Fair is foul and foul is fair’

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Supernatural theme created at the start to show how people imagined ghosts

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‘Hover through the fog and filthy air’

‘Fog and filthy’ suggests the ghosts are dirty and evil/uncleansed

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Quote from the captain to show macdonwald as a bad person

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‘The merciless macdonald’

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Quote from the captain in which he praises Macbeth and shows that Macbeths fate lies in his own hands

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‘Brave Macbeth - well he deserves that name - disdaining fortune with his brandish’d steel’

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Quote from the captain to show that nothing stood in Macbeths way and that he was forceful and focused

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‘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

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Violent imagery used by captain to show macbeths actions

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‘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

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Quote by the captain to show Macbeth as being dangerous and brave

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‘As sparrows, eagles, or the hare, the lion’

Macbeth is the eagle or lion - predator

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Witches prophecy towards Macbeth being king

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‘All hail Macbeth, hail to thee thane of cawdor, all hail macbeth thalt shalt be king hereafter’

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Rhetorical question from banquo alluding to the supernatural when asking if the prophecies are real

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‘Are ye fantastical, or that indeed’

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Macbeth first imagines killing duncan and regrets it

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‘Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair’

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Quote from duncan to foreshadow Macbeths betrayal

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‘he was a gentleman on whom i had built absolute trust’

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12
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Motif of light and dark while Macbeth speaks his thoughts

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‘Stars hide your fires, let not light see my black and deep desires’

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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

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‘My dearest partner of greatness’

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Quote from Lady M asking for her female traits and human traits to be taken away

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‘Unsex me here and fill me from the crown to the toe topfull of direst cruelty’

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15
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Quote from Lady M to show she wants her goodness removed

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‘Take my milk for gall’

Hints at the supernatural

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16
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Lady M tells Macbeth he needs to change his ways

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‘Look like th’innocent flower but be the serpent under’t’

17
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Quote to show Macbeth is worried about being killed if he kills the king

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‘Bloody instructions, which being taught, return to plague th’inventor’

18
Q

Lady Macbeth’s agressive and commanding tone - forcing macbeth to kill duncan - demasculinates him

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‘When you durst do it, then you are a man’