Macbeth Flashcards

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“As two spent swimmers……”

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“that do cling together and choke their art”

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2
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“His brandished steel…….”

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“Smoked with bloody execution”

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“Till he unseamed him from……..”

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“The nave to the chaps and fixed his head upon our battlements”

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4
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“I must report they were……”

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“ as cannons over charged with double cracks”

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5
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“What he hath lost……”

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“Noble Macbeth hath won”

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“So foul and fair a day I have not seen”

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Shakespeare is alluding to the witches in act 1 scene 1.

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7
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“Why do you dress me….”

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“ in borrowed robes”

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8
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“Cannot be ill……”

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“Cannot be good”

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9
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What device is “cannot be I’ll, cannot be good”

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Paradox- witches using equivocation

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“ no spur to prick the sides of my intent,……”

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“But only vaulting ambition which o’erleaps itself”

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“ we will proceed……”

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“No further in this business”

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“ I dare do all that may become a man;……”

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“ who dares do more is none”

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“Is this a…….”

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“ dagger I see before me”

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