Key Themes Flashcards
Ambition: MB (4)
1.3 ‘Let not light see my dark and deep desires’
1.3 ‘Chance may crown me’
1.7 ‘Vaulting ambition which o’erleaps itself’
3.2 ‘we have scorch’d the snake, not kill’d it’
Ambition: LMB (3)
1.5 ‘full o’th’milk of human kindness’
1.5 ‘all that impedes thee from the golden round’
5.1 ‘who would have thought the old man to have so much blood in him’
Ambition: MD (2)
4.3 ‘Bleed, bleed poor country’
5.6 ‘Let me find him, Fortune, and more I beg not’
Violence: MB (5)
1.2 ‘smoked with bloody execution’
2.1 ‘on thy blade, gouts of blood’
3.4 Blood will have blood’
3.5 ‘I am blood stepp’d in so far’
5.3 ‘I’ll fight till from my bones my flesh be hack’d’
Violence: LMB (4)
1.5 ‘Make thick my blood’
1.7 ‘Dashed the brains out’
2.2 ‘smear the grooms with blood’
5.1 ‘slumbery agitation’
Supernatural: Witches ( 3)
1.1 ‘fair is foul and foul is fair’
1.3 ‘look not like th’inhabitants o’th’earth’
3.5 ‘illusion shall draw him onto his confusion’
Supernatural: MB
2.1 ‘a dagger of the mind… heat-oppressed brain’
3.4 ‘let the Earth hide thee!’
4.1 ‘the blood-boltered Banquo smiles upon me’
5.8 ‘I bear a charmed life’
Kingship (4)
1.3 ‘Chance may crown me’
1.7 ‘I am his kinsman, and his subject’
1.7 ‘his virtues will plead like angels’
4.3 ‘Bleed, poor country’
App vs Reality: MB (6)
1.1 ‘Let not light see my… deep desires’
1.7 ‘False face must hide what the false face doth know’
2.2 ‘there’s daggers in men’s smiles’
3.2 ‘Be innocent of the knowledge
3.4 ‘Let the earth hide thee’
5.5 ‘the fiend that lies like truth’
App vs Reality: LMB (3)
1.5 ‘Look like th’innocent flower’
3.4 ‘Sleek o’er your rugged looks’
5.1 ‘Look not so pale’
Gender: MB (5)
1.2 ‘Disdaining fortune’
1.7 ‘I dare do all that become a man’
3.4 ‘Ay, and a bold one’
5.3 ‘Lily-livered boy’
5.8 ‘Bearlike I must fight the course’
Gender: LMB (4)
1.5 ‘Take my milk for gall’
1.7 ‘Dash’d the brains out’
2.2 ‘tis the eye of childhood that fears a painted devil’
3.4 ‘Are you a man?’
5.1 ‘The Thane of Fife had a wife’
