Macbeth Flashcards
contrast in Macbeth’s beginning description and ending
B - ‘worthy gentleman’, ‘valiant cousin’
M - ‘tyrant’
E - ‘dead butcher’
Macbeth’s first line
‘fair and foul a day I have not seen’ - echoing the witches
beginning power he thinks he has towards witches
‘speak I charge you’
things Macbeth said in his aside act 1 scene 3
hint - about prophecies, paradoxical, morals (3)
‘two truths are told’
‘this supernatural soliciting, cannot be ill cannot be good’
‘unfix my hair and make my seated her knock at my ribs’
What Macbeth says after Malcolm is appointed King
‘Let night not see my black and deep desires’
Macbeth’s change of mind due to Lady Macbeth
– all between 2 scenes
‘we will speak further’
‘we will proceed no further in this business’
‘I am settled’
Act 1 scene 7 soliloquy quotes - showing his mental debate to commit regicide
(5)
‘we still have judgement here that we but teach bloody instructions’
‘here in double trust’
‘I am his Kingsman, his subject….and his host’
‘horrid deed in every eye’
‘his virtues plead like angles’
visual hallucination - first glance of guilt before killing the King
(2) act 2 scene 1 soliloquy
‘Is this a dagger I see before me?’
‘a dagger of the mind, a false creation’
Verbal hallucination - see his guilt and mental instability
‘I heard a voice cry ‘sleep no more: Macbeth does murder sleep’
‘Glamis hath murdered sleep and therefore Cawdor shall sleep no more: Macbeth shall sleep no more’
fear and guilt after committing regicide - act 2 scene 2
hint - isn’t going back, water (2)
‘I’ll go no more. I am afraid to think what I have done’
‘will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood clean from my hand?’
act 3, scene 2 - blaming fate as experiencing guilt (animal)
‘O full of scorpions is my mind’
‘we have scorch’d the snake, not kill’d it’
blood quotes - act 3, scene 4
hint - symbol of his deeds, anagnorisis
‘blood will have blood’
‘I am in blood stepped in so far’
Irony between Macbeth and Malcolm
- reaction to another King that they don’t agree with
‘I will not yield to kiss the ground before young Malcolm’s feet’
his reaction to Lady Macbeth’s death
5/6
'she should have died hereafter' 'tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow' 'yesterday' / 'day to day' 'recorded time' (life) 'it is a tale told by an idiot...signifying nothing'
stage directions after committed regicide
‘knock within’
