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english - Macbeth Quotes Flashcards

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what is the famous thing that the witches say that relates to the main theme in Macbeth of not everything is as it seems/appears

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‘Fair is foul and foul is fair’

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what type of rhythm do the witches talk in and how does it change how they are perceived?

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trochaic - stressed, then unstressed. represents them as different and unnatural and otherworldly

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what does Macbeth say that relates to the witches?

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‘So foul and fair a day i have not seen’

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how does banquo perceive the witches?

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‘You should be women and yet your beards forbid me to interpret so’

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who replies initially to the witches once they have relayed their prophecies

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Banquo - who seems offended that the witches don’t speak to him and responds for Macbeth - is more disbelieving in the witches. he also challenges them

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what are the three prophecies

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‘All hail Macbeth, Thane of Glamis/ All hail Macbeth, Thane of Cawdor/ All hail Macbeth, that shalt be king thereafter’

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what does liminal mean and who is described as this?

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between two worlds - not entirely one thing or another, the witches are as they are otherworldly and supernatural

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what happens in end of act 1 scene 2 between banquo and Macbeth?

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Macbeth keeps asking banquo to repeat the prophecy and is very focused on his children becoming kings. Macbeth wants the witches to stay and tell him more, whereas banquo is distrusting of the witches; thinks they’ve gone mad ‘have we eaten on the insane root?’

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what does the king say (indirectly - from Ross) to Macbeth about his new position?

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and for an earnest of a greater honour - basically saying the title is a foretaste to sometnjng even greater - macbeths hope being the offer of being king

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what does Macbeth say when he is named thank of Cawdor? (and why is it important?)

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‘Why do you dress me in borrowed robes,’ is important as clothes and images of clothing are very important throughout the play - and it is as if Macbeth is dressing and presenting himself in one way but is actually someone else entirely

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comparison of banquos and macbeths responses to the witches

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banquo is suspicious - ‘ win us with honest trickiest to betray us/ In deepest consequence’ whereas Macbeth only cares about the title and their prediction for banquo ‘so you not hope your children will be kings?’

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What does Macbeth say about being king?

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If chance shall have me king, why chance may crown me without my stir

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What does Macbeth see in act 2 before he murders Duncan

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Is this a dagger I see before me?

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What does the image of murdering Duncan make Macbeth feel?

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Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair and make my seated heart knock at my ribs against the use of nature

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What happened to Duncan’s horses the night of the murder?

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Tis said they eat each other

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What happened to the earth in the night of Duncan’s death?

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Some say the earth was feverous and did shake

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What does Macbeth say in Act 3 about taking fate into his own hands

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Come Fate into the list and champion me to th’utterance

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What does Duncan say to Macbeth when he gets back from war?

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I have planted thee and labour to make thee full of growing

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What does Macbeth say after Malcolm is named Prince of Cumberland

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Prince of Cumberland, that is a step I must fall down or else o’erleap

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How does Macbeth describe his ambition at the end of act 1

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Vaulting ambition that o’erleaps itself

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What does Macbeth say about how only being safely with the crown is important

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To be thus is to be nothing, but to be safely thus

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How does Macbeth say that he could murder banquo if he so wanted?

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‘I could with barefaced power sweep him from my sight and bid my will not avouch it’

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what does banquo say about his duties to Macbeth?

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‘My duties are with an indissolvable tie forever knit’

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Why does macbeth say the witches given him when he gains the crown?

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Placed a fruitless crown and put a barren sceptre in my hand

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how does Macbeth kill the leader in the battle?

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‘Unseam’d him from the nave to th’chaps’

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what does lady Macbeth say about the devils agents coming to her?

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Come to my woman’s breasts and take my milk for gall you murd’ring ministers

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what horrible image does lady Macbeth paint of her murdering her child

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The babe that milks me I would, while it was smiling in my face, pluck its boneless gums from my breast and dash its brains out had I so sworn as you have done to this - act 1, scene 7

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28
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Meant to bathe in reeking wounds or..? Finish the quote and what scene is this

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Memorise another Golgotha - scene 2 act 1

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What does Macbeth think someone yelled when he murdered Duncan

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Glamis hath murdered sleep

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What did Macbeth say when he killed the kings guards

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I do repent me of my fury that I did kill them - act 2 scene 3

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What does Macbeth say about Duncan’s sons once they have fled

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Our bloody cousins are bestow’d in England and Ireland not confessing to their parricle

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What does Macbeth say about fleance when he tells the murderers to kill him?

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‘Fleance, whose absence is no less material to me than his father’s’

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What does Macbeth say his mind is full of?

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O full of scorpions is my mind, dear wife

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What 3 things is Macbeth likened to in act 1 scene 2?

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Yet as sparrows, eagles , or the hare, the lion
Bellonas bridegroom

35
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In Macbeth what indicate the end of the scene - give an example

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Rhyming couplets - what he hath lost, noble Macbeth hath won

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What does banquo ask Macbeth after seeing and doubting the witches?

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Have we eaten on the insane root that takes the reason prisoner

37
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What does Duncan say about not being able to read someone’s thoughts from their face and how does it compare to lady macbeths later remark to Macbeth

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‘There’s no art to find the minds construction in the face,’ in comparison to ‘your face, my thane, is a book where men may read strange matters’

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What does lady Macbeth say that she fears about Macbeth

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I do fear thy nature. It is too full o’th’milk of human kindness to catch the nearest way

39
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Two ways lady Macbeth talks about the death of Duncan

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(The raven that croaks) The fatal entrance of Duncan under my battlements
O never shall sun that morrow see

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What’s strange about LM’s last line at end of scene6

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It is in iambic pentameter, leaves a cliffhanger and sense of foreboding ,’leave all the rest to me’

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What two main reasons does Macbeth not want to kill Duncan

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He’s here in double trust, first as I am his kinsman and his subject; then as his host

42
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How does Macbeth avoid using the words murder at start of scene 7

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If it were done when ‘tis done then ‘twere well it were done quickly

43
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How does lady Macbeth manipulate Macbeth into murdering Duncan

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Says she won’t love him ,’ from this time, such I account your love’

44
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Reference to Adam and Eve

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Look like th’innocent flower but be the serpent under’t

45
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What device does Shakespeare use at the start of a2s2?

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He uses stichomythia - where two characters exchange shirt sentences back and forth to show worry and build tension

46
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Two quotes to show lady macbeths anger and panic a2 s2

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‘Why did you bring these daggers from the place? They must lie there’
‘Infirm of purpose’

47
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Why does Macbeth say he cannot return to leave the daggers

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I’ll go no more, I am afraid to think what I have done

48
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Will all great Neptunes oceans wash this blood ..? Finish the quote

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Clean from my hand. No: this my hand will rather the multitudinous seas incarnadine

49
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What two things does lady Macbeth say once returning from laying the daggers

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My hands are of your colour but I shame to wear a heart so white
A little water clear us of this deed. How easy is it then!

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What two things does Macduff say when he sees the murdered Duncan

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O horror, horror, horror
‘Destroy your sight with a new Gorgon’ - the sight of Duncan’s body will turn them to stone

51
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How does Macbeth describe Duncans body?

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Here lay Duncan, his silver skin lac’d with his golden blood and his gash’d stabs look’d like a breach in nature

52
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‘The repetition in a woman’s ear would murder as it fell’ what does it mean and why is it interesting

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To repeat this would kill a woman’s as the words fell out of my mouth, dramatic irony as LM was the one who initiated and planned the murder

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What does Macduff respond when Ross asks if he’ll go to scone (to macbeths coronation) and why is this interesting

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‘No cousin, I’ll to fife’ a bit suspicious as it could’ve been on the way there, means he may not entirely trust Macbeth

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What does banquo say that makes it sounds like he is distrusting of Macbeth before Macbeth and LM enter at start of act 3

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‘Thou played’st most foully for it’
‘May they not be me oracles as well and set me up in hope? But hush, no more’

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What two things does Macbeth say about banquo that are slightly strange

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‘There is none but he, whose being I do fear’
‘Who wear our health but sickly in his life, which in his death were perfect’ - saying he will be unwell while banquo is still alive

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How does Macbeth refer to Duncan in A3 s2

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A snake - ‘we have scorched the snake, not kill’d it’

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How does Shakespeare represent Macbeth almost jealous of Duncan

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Duncan is in his grave. After life’s fitful fever, he sleeps well.

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what does Macbeth say at the end of a3 s2, which means deeds that begin evil grow stronger with more evil

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‘Things bad begun, make strong themselves by ill’

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What does Banquo says when he is attacked?

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O, treachery!
Fly, good Fleance, fly, fly,fly!

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What two things does Macbeth say at the start of the banquet scene

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‘You know your own degrees,’
‘Ourself with mingle with society and play the humble host’

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What does Lady Macbeth say to welcome her visitors?

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Pronounce it for me sir, for my heart speaks they are welcome

62
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What does Macbeth say to the murderer about blood and cutthroats

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‘There’s blood upon thy face’
‘Thou art the best o’th’cut- throats’
‘If thou didst it thou are the nonpareil’

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Comparison of Macbeth being safe with cleanses murder and then being in danger as he’s alive

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‘While as the marble, founded as the rock, as broad and general as the casing air’
In comparison to
‘Now I am cabin’s, crib’s, confin’d, bound in’

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How does Macbeth describe fleance fleeing

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‘The work thats fled, hath nature that in time will breed, no teeth for th’present’

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Lady Macbeth reminding Macbeth of where he is (act3 scene 4) (3 examples)

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‘you do not give the cheer my lord… meeting were bare without out’
‘my worthy lord your noble friends do lack you,’
‘you have displac’d the mirth, broke the good meeting, with most admir’d disorder’

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what does Macbeth say to banquo that provokes him to plague Macbeth

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‘Were Banquo present, who I may rather challenge for kindness than pity for mischance’

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Macbeth description and accusation of Banquo (2 details)

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‘Thou canst not say I did it : never shake thy gory locks at me’
‘Thy bones are marrowless, thy blood is cold, thou hast no speculation in those eyes’

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What do LM and M say about Macbeth’s ‘affliction’

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‘Sit, worthy friends. My lord is often thus, and hath been from his youth’
‘I do forget, do not muse at me, my most worthy friends, I have a strange affliction which is nothing’

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How does lady Macbeth chastise Macbeth in a3 s4 (3 Details)

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‘Are you a man’
‘This is the very painting of your fear, this is the air drawn dagger which you said led you to Duncan’
‘What, quite unmann’d in folly?’

70
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how does lady Macbeth embarrass Macbeth on page 28

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‘Are but as pictures, tis the eye of childhood that fears a painted devil’

71
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how does lady Macbeth embarrass Macbeth (by talking about a grandma) ?

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These… imposters to true fear, would become a story at a winters fire authoriz’d by a grandam. Shame itself!’

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Two references to death in act 3 scene 4

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‘Blood hath been shed ere now i’th’olden time’
‘The time has been that when the brains were out the man would die, and there an end’

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Macbeth being nonsensical act 3 scene 4

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‘Prithee, see there! Behold, look, lo!’
‘Approach thou like the rugged Russian bear, the arm’d rhinoceros, or th’Hyrcan tiger and my firm nerves shall never tremble’

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Macbeths description of Banquos murder? (and what the murderer days in comparison)

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‘With twenty mortal murders on their crowns’ in comparison to ‘twenty trenched gashes on his head!’

75
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What does Macbeth say about banquo making him not recognize himself anymore

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‘You make me strange, even to the disposition that I owe’

76
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what does LM say first to get her guests to leave and secondly which is very rude?

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‘At once good night’
‘Stand not upon the order of your going but go at once’

77
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Macbeths horrid description of blood (2 details)

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‘It will have blood they say, blood will have blood’
‘I am in blood steep’d so far, that should I wade no more, returning were as tedious as go o’er’

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Two presentations of confusion in act 3 scene 4

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‘I think you can behold such sights… What sights my lord?’
‘Almost at odds with morning, which is which’

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Macbeth talking about his definitely develishnous and only caring for himself

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‘In his house I keep a servant feed’
‘I am bent to know, by the worst means, the worst; for mine own good’

80
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What does Macbeth say rhat is very foreboding about killing people

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‘My strange and self abuse is the initiate fear that wants hard use; we are yet but young in deed,’ says he needs to practice killing more and there will be lots more bloodshed

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What does Hecate say will happen to Macbeth?

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‘Draw him on to confusion. He shall sound fate, scorn death, and bear his hopes ‘bove wisdom, grace and fear’

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What has happened to nacduff since he didn’t go to macbeths feast?

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Cause he fail’d his presence at the tyrants feast, Macduff lives in disgrace’

83
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What does King Edward thjnk of Malcolm?

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He regards him no differently due to his misfortune - ‘that the malevolence of fortune nothing takes from his high respect’

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What has the report of Macduff and Malcolm gaining the kings, and the earl of northumberland’s trust and armies to raise against Macbeth provoke macbeth into doing?

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‘Hath so exasperate their king that he prepares for some attempt of war’

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