Act 1 Flashcards
Quote to show witches are unnatural and supernatural creatures
Speak in rhyming couplets
‘When the hurlyburlys don’t when the battles lost and won’
Like casting an evil spell
Quote to show overturning of natural order
‘Fair is foul and foul is fair’. Paradox
central theme nothing is as it seems
Quote to show eerie opening
‘Bloody execution ‘
Macbeth celebrated for bloodthirsty nature cut traitor head foreshadowing and ionic violence leads to downfall
Quote to show Macbeth is a hero and loyal
‘Brave’. ‘Valiant’.
Quote to link Macbeth to the prophecy
First line ‘so foul and fair a day I have not seen’
Quote to show Banquo is suspicious and questions his sanity
‘Have we eaten on the insane root’
Quote to show banquos aware that the witches are manipulating Macbeth
‘Win us with honest trifles -to betrays’
Quote to show Banquo is less deceived than Macbeth
Banquo:’instruments of darkness’
Macbeth:’cannot be ill cannot be good’
Quote to show Macbeth’s spellbound and left ambitious with the prophecy
‘rapt withal’
Quote to show Banquo’s sons will be kings // he isn’t driven by greed and ambition
‘Lesser than Macbeth and greater’
Quote to show Duncan want to nurture those who are loyal to him
‘Plant thee’. ‘Make thee full growing ‘
Extended plant metaphor
Quote to show Macbeth is battling with his conscience
‘Black ,deep desires’
Quote to show Lady Macbeth acknowledges that she will have to manipulate Macbeth
‘Too full o’th’milk of human kindness’
Quote to show evil in Lady Macbeths mind
‘Smoke of hell’ ‘direst cruelty ‘
Quote to show Lady Macbeth acknowledges women as weak and incapable of murder
‘Unsex me here’
