Macbeth🗡️🧙♀️👑 Flashcards
In _______ , _______ , or in rain?
thunder, lightening
When the ________ done,
hurly-burly’s
When the battle’s _____________
lost, and won
_________ calls.
Paddock
Paired Quotation!!
Witches: Fair is ______ , and _____ is fair
Macbeth: ‘So foul and fair a day _ ____ ___ ____
foul
I have not seen
- Paradox: contradictory statement
- Macbeth echoes: led by them or under their spell, Macbeth’s ‘fair’ character will be corrupted and become most ‘foul’
with his __________ steel
brandished
Which _____ with bloody ______
smoked, execution
______ out his passage
carved
___________ him from the nave to th’chaps
unseamed
What he hath lost, _____ _________ hath won.
noble Macbeth
The _________ himself is hoarse
That _________ the fatal entrance of Duncan
raven, croaks
LM : Under my ___________
Battlements
LM: Come, you spirits
That tend on ______ __________, __________ me here.
mortal thoughts, unsex
- Imperative verbs: shows her power and her hubris: arrogant to believe that she can control evil forces.
- Subvert characteristics of a typical women
- Only by adopting male characteristics can women gain power
- Very unnatural, akin to actions of the witches (Jacobean)
Fill me from the crown to the toe top-full
___ ________ ________.
Of direst cruelty
Take my ____ ____ ______.
Milk for gall
What Act and and Scene is Lady Macbeth’s soliloquy in?
Act 1 Scene 5
Vaulting ambition which ________ ______
And falls on th’other.
O’erleaps itself
The multitudinous ____ ________
seas, incarnadine
Will all great Neptunes ocean wash this blood
_____ ______ ___ ___?
Clean from my hand
Paired quotation!!
LM: Out, _________ ______
M: Out, out ____ _______
Damned spot
brief candle
- LM’s desperation (punctuation/repetition)
- Imperative verbs - ironic (commands to pleas)
- LM’s desperation has turned into a reflection of Macbeth: pathos, couple closer, worthless deeds
Yet who would have though the old man to have had ____ _______ _______ ___ _____?
so much blood in him
Life’s but a walking shadow, __ ______ _______
a poor player
It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
__________ ________.
Signifying nothing
- After Macbeth is told of the death of LM
- Example of nihilism: a belief that life is pointless
- In Jacobean audience, rejection of God’s plan (heaven/ hell) would have been shocking
- Moment of pathos - sympathy
- Moment of anagnorisis: a tragic hero’s realisation that all his actions were for nothing
Look like the innocent flower, ____ ___ ____ _______ ______.
But be the serpent under’t.
- LM’s duplicitous nature
- Imperative verb - power of M
- Religious connotation (snake-devil)
I have no spur to prick the does of my intent, but only ________ _______.
Vaulting ambition
- States his hamartia
- Macbeth’s fatal flaw overcomes all of his other, positive character traits.
Yet I do fear thy nature. __ __ ___ ____ _____ ____ __ _____ ________
It is too full o’th’ milk of human kindness.
Here lay Duncan, his silver skin laced with his ________ ______, and his gashed tabs looked like a ______ __ _______ for ruin’s wasteful entrance.
golden blood
breach in nature
But now I am cabined, cribbed, confined, bound I’m to _______ ______ and ______.
saucy doubts AND fears
O full of _________ __ ___ ______, dear wife!
scorpions is my mind
I think our country sinks beneath the yoke. It ______, it ______, and each new day a gash is added to her wounds.
weeps, bleeds
LM: When you durst do it, then you ______ __ ____
were a man
-LM is attacking Macbeth’s masculinity
- In Jacobean era, manliness would have been equated with strength
- Example of role reversal
- LM’s power is in her skills of deception and manipulation
Paired quotation!!
Macbeth: Stars hide your _____; let not light see my _____ ____ ______ ______
LM: Come, thick night and pall thee __ ___ _______ ____ __ ____ […] nor Heaven peep through
fires, dark and deep desires-
in the dunnest smoke of Hell
- close relationship based on shared ideas
- M speaks lines after LM suggests Macbeth is led, or controlled by LM
- Both characters away of the significance/consequence of committing regicide
- Imperative verb - disrupts Great Chain
Malcolm: The dead butcher and his _____-____ ______
fiend-like Queen
- Macbeth described as a ‘butcher’ - kills without feeling or remorse
- LM described as a demon - reference to witches
Paired Quotation!!
LM: A little water _____ __ __ ____ ____
LM: All the perfumes of Arabia ____ ___ ______ ____ _____ ____
clears us of this dead
will not sweeten this little hand
- Hands represent responsibility
- Ironic that later in the play, LM sees blood on her hands
- Original confidence was misplaced
- Overwhelming guilt
Macbeth: Macbeth does murder ______
Sleep
- Sleep symbolises peace or calm, M will not longer be at peace
- M has murdered his one chance at peace - and perhaps eternal peace: Heaven
- M’s own conscience
Captain: For brace Macbeth - _____ __ _______ ______ ______ (Act _ Scene _ )
well he deserves that name.
(Act 1 Scene 2)
