Literature - Macbeth Quotes Flashcards
What does Duncan repeatedly call Mcb?
‘Noble Macbeth’
What does Ross initially presented Macbeth as?
‘Bellona’s Bridegroom’ [A1]
How does Mcb speak throughout the play and what is the one occasion that he breaks this?
He speaks is Verse
And only breaks this when talking to the Murderers
LdyMcb underestimates Mcb and calls him
’ too full of the milk of human kindness’ [A1]
Macbeth’s fatal flaw
‘Vaulting ambition’ [A1]
LdyMcb undermining Mcb’s Masculinity
‘so much more the man’ [A1]
Audience feel sympathy for Macbeth when he says
‘tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow’ [A5]
Dramatic entrance of the witches
‘Thunder and lightening’ in stage directions
Witches presented as Supernatural through inhuman forsight
‘when the battle’s lost and won’ [A1]
The witches inversion of traditional values
‘fair is foul and foul is fail’ [A1]
Also repeated throughout the play
Macbeth shows guilt over killing Banquo
‘gory locks’ [A3]
Macbeth’s own realisation of his inevitable demise
‘blood will have blood’ [A3]
Witches give Macbeth false courage
’ Hail Macbeth!’ [A1]
‘ None of woman born shall harm Macbeth’ [A4]
- Many other examples throughout the play
Macbeth surrenders to the witches powers
“Call ‘em, [evil spirits] let me see ‘em” [A4]
What would the audience honestly belives in that Shakespeare plays upon
The existence of evil witches
How is Duncan presented as a ‘Good’ King
Macbeth describes his ‘silver skin’ and ‘golden blood’, [A2] showing Duncan’s inner nobility
Often his costume is white robes showing purity
How is Duncan connected to God
‘Shine on all deservers’ - Duncan [A1]
How are the Macbeths presented at the end of the play
‘Butcher and fiendlike queen’
How is Malcolm set up to oppose Macbeth
‘God above’ therefore religious [A4]
He ‘Scarcely have coveted’ the deadly sins
What form do the Witches speak in?
Trochaic Tetrameter
How are the witches presented as threatening
Striking costumes
Unusual entrances / exits
Trochaic Tetrameter is enchanting and offputiting
How does LdyMcb almost take over the witches role
‘pour my spirits in thine ear’ [A1]
Macbeth defends his own masculinity
‘I dare do all that may become a man’ [A1]
Who is celebrated as a true man at the end of the play
Siward’s Son
‘Like a man he died’ [A5]
How does LdyMcb reject her femininity
‘unsex me here’ [A1]
How does Shakespeare show that female words corrupt men
‘pour mine spirits in thine ear’ [A1] LdyMcb
How is Banquo presented as the opposite of Mcb
‘forbid me to interpret … you’ Banquo is not seduced my the witches profecies
How is MacDuff presented as opposite to Mcb
‘to pray the holy king’
MacDuff is presented as religious
