Act 1 Flashcards
1
Q
Who says: ‘If you can look into the seeds of time, And say which grain will grow, and which will not, then speak.’
Analyse
A
Banquo
- shows jealousy between M & B because of Macbeth’s prophecies
- pastoral imagery
2
Q
Who says: ‘If chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me’
Analyse
A
Macbeth
- shows Macbeth to start believing in his prophecies
3
Q
Who says: “Fair is foul, and foul is fair hover through the fog and misty air”
Analyse
A
Witches
- sets up for the doubleness of the play. What is fair to the witches is foul to man.
- ‘the fog and misty air’ - the witches set us up to mistrust everything as we do not know if it really happening
4
Q
Who says: ‘look like the innocent flower, but be the serpent underneath’
Analyse
A
Lady Macbeth
- telling her husband to welcome the king so that no one believes it to be him who killed him
5
Q
Who says: ‘valiant cousin, worthy gentleman’
Analyse
A
King Duncan
- Macbeth being welcomed back after a heroic performance in battle
- dramatic irony because the king compares him to a ‘cousin’ yet Macbeth will be the one to kill him
