act 3 Flashcards
“played most fouly”
Banquo- soliloquy- symbol of witches/macbeths evil
“He wears a fruitless crown”
Macbeth- aware Banquo is a better man than he is and is afraid as he begins to believe in the witches prophecy
“you are as much a man a spaniel a dog”
Macbeth- using toxic masculinity (like LM) to show dominance and manipulate
“full of scorpions is my mind”
Macbeth- evil, murder for the sake of it, madness, imagery, often refers to animals which could link to familiars of witches
“a worm”
macbeth- belittles fleance and underestimates him, arrogant
“we have scorched the snake not killed it”
macbeth- paranoid, suspicion, guilt, fear
“are you not a man” “unman’d for folly”
Lady macbeth-toxic masculinity, manipulation
“play the humble host”
Macbeth- appearance vs reality
“wayward son”
Hecate- macbeth is a witches son, product of evil
“Whole as the marble, founded as the rock…but now I am cabined, cribbed, confined.”
macbeth- tricolon- alliteration- 3 magic number (witches) claustraphobia/ restriction by witches
“Prithee, see there! Behold! Look! Lo! How say you?/Why - what care i?”
macbeth- broken language, not iambic pentameter (used by powerful characters) monosyllabic (used by weak characters like porter) guilt has ruined him
