Deck 2 Flashcards
- Lady Macbeth;
‘_________________, clears us of this deed.’
A little water clears us of this deed.
- How does Lady Macbeth respond when Macbeth looks at his hands after killing the king and says ‘This is a sorry sight.’
This is a sorry sight.
A foolish thought, to say a sorry sight.
- Hard ground, don’t listen to the direction of my steps. He says this is in the dagger soliloquy
Thou sure and firm-set earth,
Hear not my steps.
- He wishes Duncan could hear the door knocking so the regicide could be averted.
Wake Duncan with thy knocking:
I would thou couldst.
- What does Macbeth ironically say about the Witches and people who trust them.
Infected by the air whereon they ride,
And damn’d all those that trust them.
- What quotation shows that King Duncan admires Macbeth and has a close bond with him?
O valiant cousin, worthy gentleman.
- What quotation shows that Macbeth is intrigued by what the witches has told him?
Stay, you imperfect speakers. Tell me more.
- Lady Macbeth uses this interrogative to suggest she can never escape the guilt of what she has done.
What will these hands ne’er be clean?
- What does Lady Macbeth say she would rather do to her own baby, than break her promise to Macbeth about killing the king?
Pluck’d my nipple from his boneless gums and dash’d the brains out, had I so sworn as you have done to this.
- This quotation shows that Lady Macbeth has become frightened of the dark.
She has light by her continually, ‘tis her command.
- Appearance vs Reality ‘Look like the innocent ——– but be….’
Look like th’ innocent flower,
But be the serpent under’it.
32.Who says this and about whom? ‘Thou has it now and I fear thou play’d most foully for it.’
Banquo to Macbeth
- Macbeth says this to Lady Macbeth when he has changed his mind about killing the king.
We will proceed no further in this business.
- What does Macbeth say when he is first informed about his wife’s death which could be interpreted in two different ways?
She should have died hereafter.
- Name at least two of the metaphors that Macbeth uses to describe his feeling about life in his soliloquy in Act 5.
‘brief candle’,
Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player.
