blood / dagger / guilt / murder Flashcards
1
Q
- rhetorical question and metaphor
- hallucinated dagger is the manifestation of his guilt and fear of impending violence
- tangible reality and his imagination
- internal brawl
- envisages regicide
A
‘Is this a dagger I see before me, The handle towards my hand? Come, let me clutch thee’
‘A dagger of the mind, a false creation’
2
Q
- murder is personifed
- Roman tyrant
- virtue is gradually lost
A
‘With Tarquin’s ravishing strides’
3
Q
- epithets and metaphor
- describe duncan
- doesn’t use euphemisms
- metaphor for his conscience
- peaceful -> poisoned
A
‘the gracious Duncan that I murder’d, Put rancours in the vessel of my peace’
4
Q
- light vs dark imagery
- predatory imagery
- darkness that will facilitate his plans
- falconry
- eliminate any compassion and guilt
A
‘Come, seeling night, scarf up the tender eye of pitful day and with thy bloody and invisible hand’
5
Q
- stage directions
- ghost
- the manifestation of macbeth’s guilt, torment, and cruelty
- fear of being usurped from the throne
- ironically foreshadows the future
A
‘Enter the Ghost of Banquo and sits in Macbeth’s place’
6
Q
- repetition and prophetic statement
- returning cycle of murderous thoughts
- dirty conscience
- blood can stain clothing, the repercussions of macbeths actions have a last effect on his conscience - reliving the horrors of these interactions
A
‘It will have blood they say : blood will have blood’
7
Q
- dehumanizing animals
- banquo is the serpent, fleance is the worm
- perception is warped
- worm will become a dangerous snake and become a danger
A
‘There the grown serpent lies ; the worm that’s fled Hath nature that in time will venom breed’
8
Q
- macduff
- personification and extended metaphor of Scotland
A
‘Bleed, bleed, poor country’
9
Q
- religious prayers
- going against God and nature and is remorse at doing so physically blocks him from saying it
A
‘I could not say ‘Amen’.’
