ENGLISH Flashcards
act 1 scene 3
scene opens with witches discussing there plans, storm adding to the dreary mood (pathetic fallacy). They both see the witches meaning it wasn’t just Macbeth hallucinating driven by his vaulting ambition. ‘You should be women but your beards forbid me’.
3 Predictions
basis of the storyline of Macbeth , pushes him to murder and later insanity
Witches
great example of a stereotypical witch as they are old and ugly, witches would have strike fear into the contemporary audience due to people thinking they were real so the power they had would have been terrifying
Act 2 scene 1
scene before Macbeth commits murders and Banquo comments how dark the night is and how far the moon is down which could signal the start of the change of the natural order of the earth , banquo is tired but cannot sleep
Act 2 scene 1 pt 2 ‘is this the dagger I see before me’
captures Macbeth’s emotional intensity, Macbeth’s is hallucinating this, the dagger signifies the bloody deed whilst Macbeth himself juxtaposes such with being weak and suffering from inner turmoil, dagger represents his inner turmoil
this is a sin but he is unable to be stopped due to his vaulting ambition , the witches prophecies and lady Macbeth
divine intervention
uses a question
Witches fate he blindly follows
dagger is a warning but he refuses to take it causing what happens
‘fair is foul and foul is fair’ - scene 1 act 1
paradoxical chiasmus - deception / tricky nature
trochaic metre - adds on to the abnormality ‘weird sisters’
structurally echoed by Macbeth again in act 1 scene 3
contemporary audience daemonologie
critisizes double standards
paradox foreshadows the deception of Macbeth
connivance reappeared f sounds, abnormilty
‘seeds of time’ ‘nor fear your favours’
not influenced by witches
Macbeth become thane banquo knows it’s true the seed
sacrifices his own life
banquo noble kings relative
Or he’s cynical not saying a word his hamartia
instruments of darkness
personification
‘chocolate coloured pall’
fog and how caress blood is mixed with the clouds colour
‘fog’
symbolises the internal battle between Jekyll and Hyde, the fog being Hyde and the wind Jekyll
‘trampled calmly’
oxymoron - creates due to abnormal response
Victorian gentlemen were very prominent and were meant for men to be upstanding citizens
‘hellish’ and ‘dammed’
uncanny, implies his different appearance which emphasises his ‘trogoldytic nature’
‘hissing intake of breath’
animal imagery
god
‘The moon shone on his face’
gothic literature
moon shining on Carew emphasises his openness unlike Hyde who lives in the shadows, Hyde’s concealment creates an ominous effect
‘Prolonged negligence’
semantic field of mystery, reader questions why, dual nature, critism for victorians ignoring concept of dual nature, hide true feelings, repress his true self
