macbeth Flashcards
who wrote macbeth ?
shakespear
what are the main 8 plot points ?
macbeth meets the witches
lady macbeth encourages macbeth to kill the king
macbeth kills duncan and becomes king
macbeth has banquo killed
more predictions from the witches
macduff swears revenge
lady macbeth suffers guilt
macduff defeats macbeth
what is macbeth ?
thane of glamis
what is the witches first prediction ?
macbeth will become thane of cawdor and eventually king
what happens to macbeth after he becomes thane of cawdor ?
he starts to think he could become king - ambition starts to appear
what opportunity presents itself to macbeth ?
duncan is due to stay at the macbeths house
what does lady macbeth do when she finds out that duncan is staying ?
plans his murder
quote - witches
Fair is foul, and foul is fair
quote - lady macbeth brutal
unsex me here
quote - lady macbeth snake
Look like the innocent flower, But be the serpent under’t.
quote - lady macbeth kindness
Yet do I fear thy nature. It is too full o’ th’ milk of human kindness.
quote - macbeth guilt free
Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood clean from my hand?
quote - macbeth guilt
O, full of scorpions is my mind, dear wife!
quote - lady macbeth incentive to macbeth
When thou durst do it, then you were a man
quote - banquo devil
What can the devil speak true ?
– shows his view on the witches - they are evil and liars
quote - macbeth desire
Let not light see my black and deep desires
quote - macbeth sleep
Sleep no more!
Macbeth does murder sleep
quote - witches about macbeth
Something wicked this way comes
quote - banquo thoughts
restrain in me the cursed thoughts
– shows he too is having thoughts about murdering duncan
quote - macduff not born from woman
Tell thee, Macduff was from his mother’s womb
Untimely ripped
quote - macduff finds king
o , horror horror horror !
Most sacrilegious murder hath broke
– sacrilegious means violating sacred things - macb eth has violated god
quote - witches first apparition
Beware Macduff; Beware the Thane of Fife
quote - witches second apparition
none of women born Shall harm Macbeth
quote - witches third apparition
(none) until Great Birnam wood to high Dunsinane Hill Shall come against him
quote - macbeth loses trust in the witches
and be these juggling fiends no more believed
quote - macbeths reaction to wifes death
she should have died hereafter
two interpretations
- she would have died sooner or later - uncaring
- she should have died later so he had time to mourn
quote - lady macbeth guilt
what, will these hands ne’er be clean ?
quote - macduff mock
here may you see the tyrant
