Macbeth Flashcards
Witches
Fair is foul , and foul is fair (trochaic meter)
Macbeth on crown
Upon my head they placed a fruitless crown
Lady Macbeth on murder Duncan
Had he not resembled My Father as he slept , I had done it
Macbeth on Banquo living
We have scorched the snake, not killed it
Irrational Macbeth
Hang those that talk of fear
Lady Macbeth duplicity
Look like the innocent flower, but be the serpent under it
Macbeth after murder
I could not say amen
Macbeth on blood
Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood clean from my hand
Macbeth mind
O, full of scorpions is my mind, dear wife!
Macbeth Banquo ghost
Neve shake thy gory locks at me
Lady Macbeth manipulates
Are you a man
Lady Macbeth guilt
“Out, damned spot! Out, I say!”
Macduff massacre
All my pretty chickens and their dam at one fell swoop ?
Macbeth armour
Give me my armour
Witches warning Macbeth of Macduff
“Macbeth! Macbeth! Macbeth! Beware Macduff.
Witches foreshadowing
something wicked this way comes - chremamorphism
Macbeth blood
blood will have blood
lady macbeth gender
Come you spirits that tend on mortal thoughts , Unsex me here
Lady Macbeth PTSD
All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand
Lady Macbeth Done
Whats done cant be undone
Macbeth Vaulting Ambition
I have no spur to prick the sides of my intent, only vaulting ambition
King Duncan’s Blood
Here lay Duncan, his silver skin laced with his golden blood,
Macbeth Confined to Fears
confined, bound in to saucy doubts and fears.
Malcolm about Scotland’s suffering
It weeps, it bleeds, and each new day a gash is added to her wounds.
Macbeth Nihilism
a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
Macbeth belief in Witches(Macduff Prophecy)
‘I bear a charmed life, which must not yield/To one of woman born.
Macbeth on Lady Macbeth Death
She should have died hereafter;
Macbeth described by general in battle
Brave Macbeth
Lennox on Scotland Under Macbeth
“a hand accursed’
Malcolm on Macbeth (2)
tyrant + dead butcher
Witches lack of power
“Though his bark cannot be lost, Yet it shall be tempest-tossed”
supernatural - Hecate
“the mistress of your charms”
Witches manipulating Macbeth
eight kings
Witches on decapitation
“armed head”
Malcolm test Macduff
Uproar the universal peace, confound / All unity on earth
Macduff response to Malcolm’s test
Fit to govern, not to live
Macduff on Scotland
Bleed, Bleed, poor country!
Banquo response to witches
neither beg nor fear your favours or your hate
Macbeth on Banquo’s valour
wisdom that doth guide his valour
King Duncan rewarding Macbeth
with his former title greet Macbeth
Macbeth bad trait as a ruler
firstlings of my heart will be the firstlings of my hand
Witches control over Weather
in thunder, lightning or rain
Macbeth questions himself
Why do i yield that suggestion whose horrid image doth unfixed my hair
Macbeth on chances of becoming king
“If chance may have me king , why chance may crown me, without my stir “
Banquo on the instruments of darkness
the instruments of darkness tell us truths - only to betray
Banquo humours the Three Witches
You should be women and yet your beards forbid me to interpret that you are so
Macbeth on the dagger
A dagger of the mind
Macbeth on his brain
heat oppressed brain
Macbeth’s denial
Thou canst not say i did it
Witches prophecy on Macbeth regarding Macduff
None of woman born shall harm macbeth
Macbeth encouraging his death
What’s he that was not born of woman? Such a one am i to fear
Macbeth fearing nothing
I have forgot the taste of fears
Macbeth bloodlust
unseamed him from the nave to the chaps
Macbeth’s unchecked ambition
stars hide your fires, let not light see my black and deep desires
