Deception/deceit Flashcards
‘Starts hide your fires. Let not light see my black and deep desires’
L: rhyming couplet. Light symbolises his heaven. Adjectives ‘black’ and ‘evil’ represent evil and how rooted his ambition is BUT knows killing a king is morally wrong
C: DRK
‘There’s daggers in men’s smiles’ - Donalblain
L: metaphor. Malcom and Donalblain realise another thane murdered their father. They cannot trust anyone and must flee to safety
‘Juggling fiends’
L: MB knows witches have tricked him and he can be defeated. Noun shows that he knows of their evil attributes and that they have let him commit evil sin
C: warns if danger of witchcraft; James 1 write ‘Daemonologie’ on this subject
‘Look like the innocent flower but be the serpent under it’
L: metaphor - serpent represents sin and evil
D: LMB like Eve in Genesis tempting MB to commit sin
C: James 1 had a medal struck bearing a flower and snake commemorate discovery of Gun Powder Plot
R: Jacobean audience would recognise this. Shows murderers like MB will be discovered and punished
‘I have a strange infirmity’
LMB and MB lie and claim MB seeing a ghost is because he suffers from fits and has done since childhood. They are trying to conceal murder of B.
R: audience despise MB for lying and murdering an innocent friend
‘Fair is foul and foul is fair’
L: paradox. That which is good can be evil and vise-versa MB becoming king (prediction) seems to be good but leads him to commit evil
