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Macbeth in battle 1.2

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‘Brave”, ‘valiant’, ‘Distaining Fortune’, ‘’till he unseam’d him from the nave to th’ chaps’

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Witches 1.1

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‘There to meet with Macbeth’, ‘Lost and won’, ‘Foul and fair’, (‘thunder and lightning”)

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1.3 Witches

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‘He shall live a man forbid’ (foreshadows a cursed life), ‘Sleep shall neither night nor day’, ‘Thane of Glamis’, ‘All hail Macbeth’ ‘King’, ‘Lesser than Macbeth and greater’, ‘Not so happy, yet much happier’, ‘Thou shalt get kings, though thou be none’

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1.3 Macbeth to witches

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‘ speak, i charge you’,[witches vanish] ‘stay’, ‘borrow’d robes’, ‘so fair and foul a day’

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1.4 Macbeth speaking on his own so Duncan can’t hear

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‘For in. My way it lies’ ‘Stars hide your fires’

Earlier in scene duncan talking about malcom - ‘signs of nobleness like stars shall shine’

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1.7 Macbeth’s soliliquy on debating should he kill the king

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‘Vaulting ambition which o’erleaps itself’

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2.1- macbeth lying to banquo

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‘I think not of them’

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2.1- macbeth halucinates

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‘Is this a dagger I see before me’ (tempted)

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2.1- Macbeth’s soliliquy

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‘ bloody business’, ‘I go, and it is done’, [A bell rings], ‘the bell invites me’, ‘knell’ ‘hell’(rhyming couplet)

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2.2 Macbeth’s paranoia when speaking to lady macbeth

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‘Macbeth does murder sleep’, ‘I could not say ‘Amen’’, ‘Macbeth shall slep no more’, ‘Will all of great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood’ ‘seas incarnadine’

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2.3 Macbeth describing duncan’s death

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‘ golden blood’ ‘gash’d stabs look’d like a breach in nature’

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3.1 macbeth’s solilqy after talking w/ banquo

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‘Fears in banquo stick deep’ (‘royalty in nature’), ‘fruitless crown’, ‘barren

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3.2 l.m and macbeth talking as preparing for banquet

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‘Full of scorpians is my mind’, ‘dear wife’ ‘dearest chuck’, ‘go with me’ (gender roles restored) ‘my lord’(l.m)

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3.6 lennox and lords talking about macbeth

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Lennox-‘Tyrant’, ‘our suffering country’

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4.1 macbeth meets with witches

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‘I conjour thee’, ‘Yet my heart throbs to know one thing’ ‘shall Banquo;s issue ever reign in this kingdom’,

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4.1 witches before Macbeth enters

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‘Toad’, ‘eye of newt’ ‘toe of frog’ (making a spell w/ ingredients associaed with evil), ‘Doub;e, double toil and trouble’, ‘Root of hemlock’ (the insane root, echoes macbeth 1.3 in which he blames hemlock for seeing witches, shows they are interlocked), ‘Something wicked this way comes’

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4.1 apparitions

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1st-‘armed head’-‘beware Macduff’
2nd-‘bloody child’-‘none of woman born shall harm Macbeth’, ‘assurance double sure’, ‘thou shalt not live’
3rd-‘child crowned with a tree in his hand’- ‘be lion-mettl’d’, ‘until Great Birnam Wood to high Dunsinane hill’
4th-[Enter a show of eight kings, and the last with a glass in his hand; Banquo’s Ghost following]

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5.2 macbeth described by Angus

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‘Some say he’s mad;, ‘his title hang loose about him’, ‘like a giant’s robe’, ‘upon a dwarfish thief’

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5.3- macbeth hears of english army

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‘Till Birnam wood remove to Dunsinane’ ‘I cannot taint wtih fear’

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5.5 Macbeth learns of lady m death-monologue

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‘She should have died hereafter’, ‘Out, out, brief candle’, ‘signifying nothing’, ‘Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow’, ‘dusty death’

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5.7 Macbeth kills Young Siward

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[Fight, and Young Siward slain], ‘abhorrent tyrant’, ‘The devil himself’’not pronounce a title more hateful’

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5.8 macbeth confronts Macduff just before they fight

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‘My soul is too much chargd with blood of thine already’, ‘I bear a charmed life which must not yield To one of woman born’, ‘Untimely ripp’d’, ‘through Birnam Wood be come to Dunsinane’

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5.9 after macbeth has been killed

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Ross says ‘but like a man he died’ ‘on the front’ [Enter Macduff with Macbeth’s head] ‘dead butcher’ ‘his fiend-like queen’

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1.5 l. Macbeth invokes evil- calls out to witches

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‘Come’ ‘take my milk for gall’ ‘unsex me’ ‘under my battlements’ ‘my keen knife’

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1.7 l.m maniplating macbeth

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‘When you durst do it, then you were a man’, ‘Have pluck’d my nipple’ ‘And dash’d the brains out’ ‘we’ll not fail’

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2.2 l.m after duncan’s murder scheming with macbeth

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‘Had he not resembled my father as he slept’, ‘worthy thane’, ‘smear the sleepy grooms with blood’ ‘ a little water clears us of this deed’ (‘My hands are of your colour’)

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2.3 l.m fainting

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‘Help me hence’

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3.4 banquet scene

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‘Are you a man’ (to Macbeth)

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5.1 l.m sleepwalking

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[enter lady macbeth, with a taper], ‘Out, damned spot’, ‘The Thane of Fife had a wife. Where is she now?’

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5.9 lady m kills herself

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‘Took off her life’ ‘fiend-like queen’

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1.3 macbeth and banquo meets the witches

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B calls witches ‘instruments of darkness’, ‘Your children shall be King’(macbeth) ‘You shall be King’(banquo- finish each other’s lines off)

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2.1 banquo in monologue

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‘I would not sleep’, ‘merciful powers restrain in me the cursed thoughts’ ‘allegiance clear’

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2.4 banquo responding to duncan;s death

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‘ bloody piece of work’, ‘Fears and scruples shake us’(uncertainty in scotland)

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3.1 banquo’s soliliqy after macbeth is crowned king

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‘Thou hast it now’ (opening line of scene) Thou played’st most foully’ ‘root and father’ ‘But, hush, no more’, ‘set me up in hope’

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3.3 banquo’s murder

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‘It will rain tonight’ ‘Let it come down’(murderer), [First murderer strikes out the light], ‘O, treachery!’, ‘Fly, good Fleance, fly,fly,fly’, ‘Tho mayst revenge’

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3.4 banquo;s ghost

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[Enter Ghost of Banquo], ‘The table’s full’ ‘Here is a place reserv’d’, ‘Thou canst say I did it’ ‘gory locks’

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2.3 porter scene, macduff finds body of king

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‘O gentle lady’, ‘Approach the chamber and destroy your sight’, ‘Most sacreligious murder’, ‘O horror, horror, horror’

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2.4 macduff talking to old man and ross -malcom and donalbain’s actions “

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‘ puts upon them suspicion of the deed’ (suspects malcom and donalbain), ‘fled’ (macduff informs us) ‘our old robes sit easier than our new’

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4.2 ross speaking to l. Macduffbefore macduff’s fami;u are killed

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‘ noble, wise, judicious’ (ross talking on macuff), ‘He loves us not’ ‘yet he’s fatherless’

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4.3 malcom, macduff, ross brings latest news of scotland

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‘Tyrant’, ‘Bleed, bleed, poor country’, ‘Gracious England hath lent us’ (england not suffering),

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4.3 hear of macduff’s family murder

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‘Savegely slaughter’d’, ‘He has no children’, ‘hell-kite’(mabeth), ‘all my pretty chicks’, ‘one fell swoop’, ‘But I must also feel it as a man’, ‘Heaven forgive him too!’ ‘Fiend of Scotland’

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5.8 macduff provoking macbeth

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‘Turn, hell-hound, turn’, ‘My voice is in my sword’, ‘Untimely ripp’d’, ‘coward’

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5.9 macduff in final scene

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[enter macduff with macbeth’s head], ‘compass’d with thy kingdom’s pearl’ ‘Hail, King of Scotland’

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1.4 king duncan after thane of cawdor lost title

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‘There’s no art to find the mind’s construction on the face’, ‘absolute thrust’, ‘plant thee’

‘Thane of cawdor confess’d his treasons’ he did

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1.6 duncan complementing macbeth’s castle

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‘ honour’d hostess’, ‘castle hath a pleasant seat’

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5.9 malcom final speech

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‘Planted’, ‘dead butcher’, ‘fiend-like queen’ ‘took off her life’ ‘by the grace of Grace’

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4.2 lady macduff

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‘He loves us not’ ‘i have done no harm’ ‘womanly defence’ [exit lady macduffcrying ‘Murder’ persued by murderers’

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4.2 young macduff

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‘He has kill’d me, mother’, ‘Run away, I pray you’

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2.3 lennox showing respect to macbeth

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‘ noble sir’

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2.3 lennox describing natural order disruption

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‘The night has been unruly’, ‘combustion’ ‘chimneys were blown down’ ‘earth was feverous and did shake’

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5.2 lennox betraying macbeth

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‘Drown the weeds’

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4.3 ross telling macduff about scotland and his family

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‘ poor country’ ‘shrieks that rend the air’ ‘savagely slaughter’d’ ‘all that could be found[were killed]’

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2.4 donalbain macbeth not to be trusted

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‘Where we are’ ‘daggers in men’s smiles’

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Murderers to kill banquo

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Speak in prose for lower class, ‘I made good to you’(macbeth), ‘my liege’(first muderer)

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Porter scene

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  1. 3, comedic interlude after murder of duncan

References gunpowder plot ‘equivocator’(someone who tries to twist the truth)

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2.3 old man

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Represents common man, ‘tis unnatural’ ‘falcon’ ‘by a mousing owl hawk’d at and kill’d’, ‘Duncan’s horses’ ‘they eat each other’ ‘make war with mankind’

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5.4 scottish doctor

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Macbeth says ‘find her disease and purge it’ - desperate but too late, cant get rid of evil

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Violence theme

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Macbeth in battle, child abuse metaphor, murder of duncan, banquo, maduff’s family, young siward, fight at end

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Appearance vs reality theme

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Unsettling atmosphere (similar to own world). Witches, thane of cawdor, visions, l.macbeth, macbeth (brave in battle, w/ witches, hiding secrets, suffering,other’s views of him)

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Theme of ambition

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Sowing seeds (witches, l macbeth), macbeths downfall

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Theme of betrayal

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Thane of cawdor, duncan, banquo, scotland suffering, macduff

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Theme of masculinity

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M in battle, witches, fertility, lm manipulation, murders(all cowardly, duncan-‘as he slept’, banquo and macduff- murderers), macduff (sacrefices for his country, good in battle at end, his family ‘But I must also feel it as a man’, macbeth’s death

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Rightful kingship

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Duncan, macbeth(witches, regicide, suffering of macbeth and of scotland) fleance, apparition of line of kings, malcom at end

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Theme of fate

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Macbeth in battle, witches prophecies

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Guilt theme

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Duncan’s murder (trying to hide thoughts before and then blood, suffering), regret , paranoia

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1.5 l.macbeth concerned why macbeth cant kill king

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‘Too full o’th’milk of human kindness’

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3.1 macbeth lost trust in banquo

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‘ fears in Banquo stick deep’

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1.5 L.macbeth manipulating macbeth

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look like th’ innocent flower’ ‘but be th’ serpant under’t’ ‘This night’s great business’. ‘Leave all the rest to me’ last line of scene

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4.3 - malcom saying why macbeth is a bd kind

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‘I grant him bloody, luxurious, avaricous, false, deceitful, suden malicious, smaking of every sin that has a name’

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4.3 after macduff has heard of his familys murder- malcom try to motivate

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‘Let grief convert to anger’

‘Blunt not the heart,enrage it’

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5.5 witches prophecy being proved

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‘The wood began to move’ ‘moving grove’

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Significance of lady macduff

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-brought in so late and killed off
-reminder of how women shoul behave and be like
one who would o to heaven- l macduff rather than lady macduff
-she is punished for her role in regicide and for unnaturalness as woman- confidence and ambitiousness

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2.2 Macbeth saying he has killed duncan

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‘I have done the deed’

LM- ‘worthy thane’- link to when duncan said ‘worthy gentleman’ in 1.2

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Greek tradgedy structure

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  • climax in centre
    • arguably climax in scene 2- kill the king and deal with it, off stage
  • however catastrophe at end

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