characters (facts and key quotes) Flashcards
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Duncan
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- Duncan is the king of Scotland.
- He epitomizes good kingship: he is honest, virtuous, political and social order- an order which cannot be restored until the king sits on the throne.
- The Scottish rule of succession was not dependent on primogeniture.
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Duncan :key quotes
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- he was a gentlemen [Carwdor] on whom i built/ an absolute trust (1,4)
- i have began to plant three [Macbeth], and will labor/ to make thee full or growing
- we will establish our estate upon/ our eldest, Malcolm, whom we name hereafter, / the prince of Cumberland. (1,4)
- there’s no art to find the mind’s facilities in the face (1,4)
- This Duncan / hath borne his faculties so meek (Macbeth 1,7)
- here lay Duncan/ his silver skin laced with his golden blood/ and gashed stabs looked like a breach in nature (Macbeth 2,3)
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the weird sisters
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- it is worth nothing that the three weird sisters are not routinely referred to as witches in the play- on the one occasion they are, one of the sisters takes great offence.
- their prophecies prompt Macbeth to kill Duncan. though they never specifically compel anyone or do anything. it makes us question whether a person’s fate is already decided or whether we can change the course of our destiny.
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weird sisters :key quotes
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- when shall we three meet again?/ in thunder, lightning, or in rain? (1,1)
-fair is foul and foul id fair / hover through the fog and filthy air. (1,1) - what are there/ so withered and wild in their attire, / that look not like the inhabitants o’th’earth/ and yet are on’t (banquo 1,3)
- you should be women/ and yet your beards forbid me to interpret/ that you are so (banquo 1,3)
all hail macbeth, that shalt be king hereafter (1,3) - if you can look into the seeds of time, / and say which grain will grow, and which will not/ speak then to me (banquo 1,3)
-thou [banquo] shalt be kings, thiugh thou be none (1,3) - the earth hath bubbles, as water has/ and these are of them. (banquo 1,3)
- into the air, and what seemed corporal,/ melted, as breath into the wind/ wold they have stayed (macbeth 1,3)
- were such things have as we do speak about ? (banquo 1:3)
- and ofterntimes, to win us to our ham/ the istruments of darkness tell us truths/ win us with honest trifles, to betray n deepest consequence. //
- double, doulbe, toil and trouble;/ fire burn, and cauldron bubbles (4,1)
- o, well done. i commend your pains,/ and everyone shall share i’th’gains (hecate 4,1)
- by the pricking of my thumb/ something wicked this way comes (4,1)
- how now, you secret, black and midnight hags? (Macbeth 4,1)
-tell me, thou unknown power (Macbeth 4,1) - he will not be commanded. heres another/more potent than the first 94,1)
- Macbeth, Macbeth, Macbeth. beware macduff (4,1)
- for none of woman born/ shall harm Macbeth (4,1)
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Macbeth
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- a scottish general and the thane of glaims. he fights valiantly for his country, and is highly regarded by everyone including the king.
- Macbeth is led to evil thoughts after hearing the weird sisters prophecies also he was urged by his wife, he murders Duncan, employs three men to murder banquo and macduffs family is slaughtered.
- in the plays finale, he is killed by macduff
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key quotes Macbeth
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- so fair and foul a day i not seen 1,3
- if chance will have me king, why chance may crown me 1,3
- stars, hide your fires/ let not light see my black and deep desires 1,4
- my dearest partner of greatness 1,5
- yet do i fear thy nature/ it is too full o’th milf of human kindness/ to catch the nearest way (lmb) 1,5
- hes here in double trust/ first as i am his kinsman and his subject/ strong both against the deed/ than as his host 1,7
- we will proceed no further in this buisness 1,7
- i dare do all that may become a man/ who dares do more is none 1,7
- away and mock the time with the fairest show/ false dace must hide what the false heart doth know 1,7
- is this a dagger which i see before me/ the handle towards my hand ? 2,1
- i heard a voice cry sleep no more / macbeth doth murder sleep 2,2
- our fears in banquo stick deep 3,1
- we have scorched the snake, not killed it/ shell close and be herself 3,2
- but now i am cabined, cribbed, confined 3,2
- thou canst not say i did it: never shake/ thy gory locks at me 3,4
- ill fight til from my bones my flesh be hacked 5,3
- out out brief candle/ lifes but a walking shadow, a poor prayer/ that struts and frets his hour upon the stage/ and then hear is no more 5,5
- why should i play the roman fool, and die/ on mine own sword ? 5,8
- i must not yield/ to one of woman born 5,8
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lady macbeth
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- is an incredibly ambitious woman, taking charge and manipulating her husband right form the start of the play. she is ruthless in her pursuit in power, taking full control of the plot to kill king Duncan.
- as the play unfolds she begins to suffer the ill effects of committing regicide and deteriorates to the point that she takes her own life.
- to a certain extent she subverts the stereotypical gender roles which were so prevalent at the time.
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lady macbeth key quotes
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- i do fear thy nature/ it is too full o’th’milk of human kindness 1,5
- hither/ that i may pour my spirits in thine ear/ and chastise with the valour of my tongue/ all that impedes thee from the golden round 1,5
- the raven himself is horse/ that croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan 1,5
- come you spirits/ that end on mortal thoughts, unsex me here / and fill me from the crown to the toe top full/ of direst cruelty 1,5
- come to my woman’s breasts / and take my milk for gall, you murdering ministers 1,5
- come thick night / and pall thee in the dunnest snake of hell 1,5
- great glaims worthy cawdor/ greater than both by the all hail hereafter 1,5
- o never/ shall sun that morrow see 1,5
- thy letters have transported me beyond/ this ignorant present 1,5
- look like the innocent/ but be the serpent under’t 1,5
- you shall put / such i account thy love 1,7
- what beast wasn’t then/ that made you break this enterprise to me ? 1,7
- i would while it was smiling in my face/ have plucked the nipple from his boneless gums/ and dashed the brains out 1,7
- his two chamberlains/ will i with wine and wassail so convince/ that memory the warder of the brain / shall be a fume 1,7
- bring forth men children only/ for thy undaunted mettle should compose/ nothing but males (Macbeth 1,7)
- had he not resembled / my father as he slept, i had done’t 2,2
- a little water clears us of this deed 2,2
- naught’s had all spent/ where our desires is got without content 3,2
- out dammed spot out i say 5,1
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banquo
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- he is a Scottish nobleman who like Macbeth impressed people with his bravery in battle.
- he was with Macbeth when the weird sisters prophecies that he will beget kings. he is far more skeptical about the prophecies than Macbeth and believes that the weird sisters are betraying them both.
- he is the antithesis of Macbeth being Honorable despite temptation. Macbeth has him murdered because he is worried banquo suspects him for the murder of Duncan
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banquo key quotes
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- what are these /so withered and so wild in their attire/ that look not like the inhabitants’o the earth/ and yet are on’t ? 1,3
- look how our partners rapt 1,3
why do you start and seen to fear things that sound so fair? 1,3 - were such things here as we do speak about?/ or have we eaten on the insane root/ that takes the reason prisoner? 1,3
-that trusted home/ might yet enkindle you to the crown 1,3 - what, can the devil speak true? 1,3
- worthy Macbeth we stay upon your leisure 1,3
- and oftentimes, to win us to our harm,/ the instruments of darkness tell us truth/ win us with honest trifles, to betray’s/ in deepest consequences 1,3
- new honors come upon him,/ like our strange garments cleave not to their mold,/ but with the aid of use 1,3
- there if i grow, / the harvest is your own 1,3
- a heavy summons lies upon me,/ and yet i would not sleep 2,1
- i dreamed last night of the three weird sisters 2,1
- too cruel anywhere/ dear duff, i prithee, contradict thyself 2,3
- thou has it now, king, cowdor, glaims, all / as the weird women promised, and i fear/ thou played’st most foully for it 3,1
- ha hath a wisdom that doth guide his valour/ to act in safety (mac) 3,1
- it will be rain tonight 3,3 (just before his death)
- oh treachery! fly good fleance, fly , fly , fly 3,3
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macduff
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- a Scottish nobleman who is suspicious of Macbeth kingship right from the start
- with the help of the kings son, Malcolm, he eventually becomes a leader of a crusade to unseat Macbeth
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macduff key quotes
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- most sacrilegious murder has broke ope/ the lords anointed temple 2,3
- to leave his wife, to leave his babes,/ his mansion and his title in a place/ form whence himself he does fly? he loves us not (lmd) 4,2
- not in the legions/ of horrid hell can come a devil more damned/ in evils to top Macbeth 4,3
- bring thou this fiend of Scotland and myself/ untimely ripped 5,8
turn, hell hound, turn ! 5,8 - hail, king ! for so thou art : behold, where stands/ the usurpers curse head: the time is free 5,8
