Macbeth Flashcards
Macbeth guilt
“Will all great neptunes ocean wash this blood clean from my hand?”
“Wake Duncan with thy knocking I would thou couldst”
“Thy bones are marrowless thy blood is cold”
Macbeth supernatural
“Is this a dagger I see before me?”
Witches playing on ambition
“All hail Macbeth! Hail to thee, Thane of Glamis”
“All hail Macbeth! Hail to thee, Thane of Cawdor”
All hail Macbeth! that shalt be king hereafter”
Banquo to witches saying they are unknown creatures
“You should be women, and yet your beards forbid me that you are so”
Witches warning m
“Macbeth! Macbeth! Beware Macduff. Beware the Thane of Fife”
Pathetic fallacy stage directions
“Thunder and lightning”
Witches pathetic fallacy
“When shall we meet again? In thunder lightning or in rain?
Witches appearance vs reality
“Fair is foul and foul is fair”
Witches about Macbeth being king and b not
“Lesser than Macbeth and greater…Not so happy yet much happier…thou shalt get kings, though thou be none so all hail Macbeth and banquo”
Lady m saying Macbeth cannot so the deed he is too innocent
“Too full o’ the milk of human kindness”
Lady m in control
“Leave all the rest to me”
Lady m, act innocent but be guilty - a vs r
“Look like the innocent flower but be the serpent under it”
Lady m, they are not guilty
“A little water clears us of this deed”
Macbeths change from the start and middle of the play to the end
When he’s feeling uncertain, he asks lots of qs “whence is that knocking? “How is’t with me, when every noise appals me”
At the start and end of the play he is more certain “stars hide your fires” “I will not yield”
Macduff about m at end of play
“Hell-hound” “tyrant”
Ms violent ambition has ruined all his noble characteristics
