Deciet Flashcards
‘Fair is foul, and foul is fair’.
L = PARADOX. That which is good can be evil and vice-versa. The prediction that MB will become king seems to be good but leads him to commit evil.
‘Stars hide your fires. Let not light see my black and deep desires.’
L= RHYMING COUPLET. Light symbolizes heaven. Adjectives ‘black’ represents evil; ‘deep’ how deep his ambition is BUT knows killing King is morally wrong.
C= DRK. Killing a king = act against God.
‘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 I had a medal struck bearing a flower and snake to commemorate discovery of Gunpowder plot. R = Jacobean audience would recognise this. Shows murderers like MB will be discovered & punished.
‘There’s daggers in men’s smiles’.
L = METAPHOR. Malcolm and Donalbain realise another Thane murdered their father. They cannot trust anyone and must flee to safety.
‘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 the murder of Banquo.
R = audience despise MB for lying and for murdering an innocent friend.
‘Juggling fiends’
L = adj – knows the witches have tricked him and he can be defeated; noun – shows he knows they are evil and have led him to commit evil.
C = warns of dangers of witchcraft; James I wrote ‘Daemonologie’ on the subject.
‘False face must hide what false heart doth know’
L = PERSONIFICATION - a heart can’t know anything
L= ADJECTIVE-‘false’
