macbeth Flashcards
“There’s no art…
/ To find the mind’s construction in the face.” - dramatic irony, characterization, connotation, act1, scene 4.
Stars, hide your fires…
/Let not see my black and deep desires.” - using the word ‘soliloquises’, Light and dark imagery motif, appearance vs reality theme, act 1, scene 4.
“No spur,…
but only vaulting ambition” , high modality, imagery, soliloquy, euphemism, act 1, scene 7.
‘Is this a dagger…
which I see before me?’”, following the murder of king duncan, metaphorical, act 2, scene1.
“To be thus in nothing,…
but to be safely thus”, Dramatic irony, Murdering is Macbeth’s remedy to paranoia, connections to the attempted acts of regicide and usurpation to King James, act 3, scene1.
“Things bad begun,…
make strong themselves by ill…”, Plosive alliteration, act 3 scene 2.
“O, treachery!/…
Fly, good Fleance, fly, fly fly!”, exclamatory language, alliteration, fricative sounds, asyndeton, here banquo (as he is dying) is begging fleance to avenge him, act 3, scene 3.
“I am cabined,…
cribbed, confined, bound in”, this basically describes macbeths sense of false victory as it has come to his knowledge that fleance is still alive, Alliterative C, act 3, scene 4.
“It weeps,…
it bleeds and each new day a gash”, Personification, Assonance, ‘it’ referring to scotland and macbeths negative effect as he rule, act4, scene 3.
act 1 scene 1
Establishes the witches’ significance in Macbeth’s unravelling and demise
act 1 scene 2
Immediate characterization of protagonist as he is described to be, ‘Brave Macbeth’, Macbeth, through explicit characterization from other characters, is depicted as a killer meaning he is familiar with blood(somewhat paradoxical considering his character is degraded by blood)
act 1 scene 3
Witches utilise an incantatory language - replicates a sort of hypnotic/ manipulative language,
Act 1 Scene 6
Duncan and the Thanes arrive at Macbeth’s castle
Act 3 Scene 1
Banquo’s Soliloquy → Portrays his awareness of the prophecies and the danger of witchcraft, however he’s only enticed and not willing to fall in the same trap as Macbeth
Act 3 Scene 4
Macbeth is depicted as a hubris king (with the prophecies feeding his ego) as the death of both King Duncan and the murder of Banquo provide a false sense of victory… However he finds out that Fleance is alive and his ego retreats.
