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MACBETH Flashcards

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Macbeth’s introduction as a heroic warrior

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‘Disdaining fortune… like valour’s minion’

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Macbeth mirrors the witches’ speech here

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‘So foul and fair a day I have not seen’ (mirrors witches)

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Macbeth questions his appointment as Thane of Cawdor

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‘Why do you dress me in borrowed robes’

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Macbeth vacillates between seeing the witches as good and evil

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‘This supernatural soliciting cannot be ill, cannot be good’

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Macbeth at this point does not wish to take any action in order to become king [2 quotes]

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‘If chance may have me king, why, chance may crown me’
‘We will proceed no further in this business’

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Macbeth beginning to succumb to the witches’ and his wife’s will

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‘Stars hide your fires, let not light see my black and deep desires’

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Macbeth’s immediate guilt linking to blood motif

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‘Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood clean from my hand?’

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Macbeth beginning to go insane

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‘sleep no more! Macbeth doth murder sleep!’

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Macbeth’s duplicitous description of Duncan

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‘His silver skin laced with his golden blood’

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Macbeth doesn’t have an heir

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‘Fruitless crown’

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Macbeth realises he has to kill more people in order to stay as king [2 quotes]

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‘We are yet but young in deed’
‘We have scorched the snake, not killed it’

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Macbeth very much feeling the consequences of his actions

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‘Oh full of scorpions is my mind, dear wife’

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Macbeth reaching the point of no return

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‘I am in blood stepped in so far that should I wade no more returning were as tedious as to go over’ (after seeing Banquo’s ghost)

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Macbeth becoming dominant over his wife

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‘Be innocent of the knowledge, dearest chuck, until thou applaud the deed’

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Malcolm and Macduff’s opinions of Macbeth

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‘Black Macbeth’, ‘devil’

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Description of Macbeth as a tyrant linking to his earlier reaction to being appointed Thane of Cawdor

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‘Like a giant’s robe, upon a dwarfish thief’

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Macbeth despairing over what he has done

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‘I have supped full of horrors’

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Macbeth’s final speech

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‘Life’s but a walking shadow’

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Macbeth’s belief in the witches (being debunked)

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‘I bear a charmed life’ (double meaning, blessed or bewitched)

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Lady Macbeth’s egalitarian relationship

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‘Dearest partner in greatness’

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Macbeth too heroic to do what is necessary

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‘Too full of the milk of human kindness to catch the nearest way’

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Lady Macbeth losing femininity [2 quotes]

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‘Come, you spirits… unsex me here… fill me with direst cruelty’
‘Take my milk for gall’

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Lady Macbeth goading/tempting her husband

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Look like the innocent flower ‘Be the serpent under’t’

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Lady Macbeth’s resolve and loyalty

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‘Dashed the brains out’ (of her child had Macbeth told her to, total resolve)

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Lady Macbeth’s mistrust of her husband

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‘I laid their daggers ready, he could not miss them’ (clear mistrust)

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Lady Macbeth beginning to realise her guilt

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‘These deeds must not be thought after these ways: so it will make us mad’

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Lady Macbeth not affected by guilt, and trivialising her husband’s

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‘A little water clears us of this deed’

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Lady Macbeth sleepwalking, has gone insane

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‘All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand’

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Insanity is incurable

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‘This disease is beyond my practice’

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Banquo’s immediate scepticism of the witches

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‘That look not like the inhabitants of the Earth’

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Banquo surprised that the witches’ prophecy comes true

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‘What, can the devil speak true?’

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Banquo noticing Macbeth contemplating the witches’ prophecy

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‘look, how our partner’s rapt’

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Banquo understanding the Witches’ equivocal nature

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‘The instruments of darkness tell us truths; Win us with honest trifles, to betray’s in deepest consequence’

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Banquo beginning to mistrust Macbeth

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‘The temple-haunting martlet’

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Banquo remaining loyal to Duncan

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‘There if I grow, the harvest is your own’

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Banquo acknowledging the witches’ influence on him

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‘I dreamed last night of the weyward sisters’, ‘cursed thoughts’

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Banquo directly voicing his suspicion of Macbeth (in a soliloquy of course)

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‘I fear he played most foully for it’

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Banquo’s aptitude for kingship

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‘Royalty of nature’

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Macbeth equivocating about Banquo’s murder

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‘Our dear friend Banquo, who we miss’

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Witches immediately ambiguous and equivocal

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‘Fair is foul and foul is fair’

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Macbeth physically repulsed by witches, still remains sceptical

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‘Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair’

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Banquo questioning the witches’ appearance

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‘You should be women, and yet your beards forbid me to interpret that you are so’

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Witches referring to Macbeth as evil

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‘By the pricking of my thumbs // something wicked this way comes’

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Macduff’s progressive views on masculinity

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‘I must also feel it as a man’

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Macduff’s opinion on Macbeth [2 quotes]

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‘Bring thou this fiend of Scotland’
‘Tyrant, show thy face’

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Macduff’s resolve to avenge his family

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‘My voice is in my sword’

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Donalbain’s mistrust of everyone

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‘There’s daggers in men’s smiles’

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The porter’s speech

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‘Could not equivocate to heaven’

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___ came first, the chicken or the ___

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‘What you egg?’

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Malcolm’s unquestioning loyalty and truthfulness

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‘Would not betray the Devil to his fellow and delight no less in truth than life’

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Malcolm representing the people’s needs

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‘What I am truly is thine and my poor country’s to command’

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Malcolm’s loyalty to God

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‘God above deal between thee and me’

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Natural order being disrupted and causing a tectonic anomaly

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‘The earth was feverous and did shake’ (night of Duncan’s death)

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Unprecedentedly bad weather thanks to disrupted natural order

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‘This sore night hath trifled former knowings’

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