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When shall we three meet again in thunder lightning or in rain

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weather sets a scary symbolises the witches are evil when there are clouds God can’t see you.

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Let not light see my black and deep desires

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don’t let God see negative ambition to become king

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Yet do I fear thy nature it is too full o’th milk of human kindness

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breast milk, women’s job - lady Macbeth is saying Macbeth is to kind/weak to get what he wants saying he is a women

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unsex me here

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strip me of my feminine qualities make me more like a man so I can kill Duncan because Macbeth won’t

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Look like the innocent flower but be the serpent under it

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the word innocent suggests that they have done nothing pure harmless wrong wrong innocent flower shows the technique metaphor beautiful elegant dedicate alluring serpent Adam and Eve tricked wicked evil devil sinister sly

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Fair and noble hostess

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good bravery linking to Macbeth ideal women

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We love him highly and shall continue our graces towards him

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Duncan thinks Macbeth good/trustworthy and they will continue to honour him

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If we should fail

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partners he is worried if they fail Macbeth will be executed he is asking lady Macbeth for support this links to a Jacobean upper class woman’s job

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What cannot you and I perform upon the unguarded Duncan

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rhetorical question she believes they’re unstoppable together she’s trying to make it sound easy he can do it gain power easily

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Bring forth men

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Macbeth beloved lady Macbeth is to masculine to give birth to female children because she is strong and fearless

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False face must hide what the false heart doth know

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they need to fake what they are actually feeling hide their emotions

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Is this a dagger I see before me

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rhetorical question links to the idea of killing Duncan he is imagining hallucinating the dagger he thinks it is a sign that he should kill Duncan

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Had he not resembled my father as he slept I had done’t

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Duncan looks like her father so she couldn’t kill him

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Glamis hath murdered sleep and therefore Cawdor shall sleep no more

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because of his guilt he will never be able to rest sleep

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Go get some water and wash this filthy witness from your hand

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clean your hands to the evidence blood links him to murder

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Will all Neptune’s ocean wash this blood clean from my hand

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not even an ocean can clean his hands of blood

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My hands are of you colour but I shame to wear a heart so white

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she is as guilty as Macbeth even if she did not commit the murder innocent pure

18
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Thou hast it now king Cawdor glamis all A’s the weyward women promised and I fear thou play’dst most foully for’t

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scared that the witches are right

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There is none but he whose being I do fear

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there is no one he fears

20
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Upon my head they placed a fruitless crown

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he doesn’t deserve the crown

21
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Banquo thy soul’s flight if it find heaven must find it out tonight

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banquo soul will fly when he goes to heaven after being killed

22
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Be bright and jovial among your guests tonight

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Lm wants him to pretend he is happy

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O full of scorpions is my mind dear wife

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his mind is being poisoned, he can tell the evil is taking over

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Be innocent of the knowledge dearest chuck till thou applaud the deed

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showing a change in their relationship calling her womanly he does not involve he in the plans trying to make Lm go back to the ideal of Jacobean women

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Macduff beware the thane of fife

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a floating head warns Macbeth to beware of Macduff

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Macbeth says says that he had already guessed as much

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Macduff killing Macbeth

27
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Out damned spot out I say

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she has gone mad / she is imagining she was blood her that she cannot rid

28
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The thane of fife had a wife where is she

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Macduff’s wife=she is dead

What will these hands ne’er be clean - she can never get rid of the guilt

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Here’s the smell of blood still all the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand

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she is smelling blood he guilt is causing her to sleep walk and imagine things that are not there