Macbeth Flashcards
Witches say they will see the main character (scene 1)
‘There to meet with MacBeth’ (Third Witch)
2nd time Macbeth mentioned - courageous (scene 2)
‘brave MacBeth - well he deserves that name’
2 lines - cuts person - puts headsomewhere (scene 2)
Till he unseam’d him from the nave to th’chaps And fixed his head upon our battlements’ (Captain)
2 lines - first line about wounds - second line about christ mountain (scene 2)
‘meant to bathe in reeking wounds Or memorise another Golgotha’ (Captain)
like a little yellow man - Slicing through a way (scene 2)
‘Like Valour’s minion carv’d out his passage’ (Captain)
Enemy died - Macbeth gets his title (scene 2)
‘Go pronounce his present death And with his former title greet MacBeth’ (Duncan)
Rhyming couplets - alliteration - something lost/won (scene 1)
‘When the hurly-burly’s done, When the battle’s lost and won’ (Second Witch)
Paradox - alliteration - rhyming couplets - fair (scene 1)
‘Fair is foul, and foul is fair’ (Witches)
Someone lost - brave Macbeth suceeds (scene 2)
‘What he hath lost, noble MacBeth hath won’ (Duncan)