Macbeth Flashcards
Lady Macbeths ambition quotes
“Look like the innocent flower but be the serpent under’t” - medal after gunpowder plot had a serpent. “Unsex me here” “come you spirits that tend on mortal thoughts” “come thick night
Duncans characterisation
“O valiant cousin worthy gentleman” “he was a gentleman on whom I’d built an absolute trust”. “There’s no art to find the minds construction in the face” “what he bath lost, Noble Macbeth bath won”
Lady Macbeths changes
“A little water clears us of this dead” “all the perfumes of arabia will not sweeten this little hand” “out dammed spot” “ say to the king I would attend his leisure for a few words”
Witches
“Fair is foul and foul is fair”. “Where shall we meet again. In thunder lighter and rain” “shalt be king hereafter” “none of woman born shall harm Macbeth”
Euphemisms
“You shall put this nights great business into my dispatch” “I go and it is done” “leave all the rest to me”
Super - natural
“Is this a dagger I see before me “ . The ghost of Banquo. The witvhes prophecys
What does banquo call the witches
“Instruments of darkness”
What does Macduff call Macbeth
“Here may you see the tyrant”
Macbeths relationship with LM
String to less strong:
First words are Macbeths “my dearest love” “spur”
“Be innocent of the knowledge dearest chuck”
She has to request for a few “words” with the king.
And Macbeth finds out his wife has died and he doesn’t care. “She should have died hereafter”
Macbeth key quotes
“let not light see my blavk and deep desires”. “Present fears are wore than horrible imaginings” “false face must hide what the false heart doth know”
How does setting change when Duncan dies
“Dark night” “screems of death” “prophesying”
What does Macbeth lose after the killimg of Duncan
He cannot say “amen” - links to the divine right of kings
What does the porter call himself
“I am the porter of hell
What does Macduff call Macbeth at the end of the play
A “tyrant” - shows his transformation throughout
What does Duncan say about the face and mind
There’s no art to find the minds construction in the face
