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Macbeth Flashcards

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Witches

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Fair is foul , and foul is fair (trochaic meter)

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Macbeth on crown

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Upon my head they placed a fruitless crown

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Lady Macbeth on murder Duncan

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Had he not resembled My Father as he slept , I had done it

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4
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Macbeth on Banquo living

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We have scorched the snake, not killed it

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5
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Irrational Macbeth

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Hang those that talk of fear

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Lady Macbeth duplicity

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Look like the innocent flower, but be the serpent under it

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7
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Macbeth after murder

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I could not say amen

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Macbeth on blood

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

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Macbeth mind

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O, full of scorpions is my mind, dear wife!

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10
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Macbeth Banquo ghost

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Neve shake thy gory locks at me

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11
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Lady Macbeth manipulates

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Are you a man

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Lady Macbeth guilt

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“Out, damned spot! Out, I say!”

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13
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Macduff massacre

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All my pretty chickens and their dam at one fell swoop ?

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14
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Macbeth armour

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Give me my armour

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Witches warning Macbeth of Macduff

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“Macbeth! Macbeth! Macbeth! Beware Macduff.

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16
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Witches foreshadowing

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something wicked this way comes - chremamorphism

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17
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Macbeth blood

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blood will have blood

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lady macbeth gender

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Come you spirits that tend on mortal thoughts , Unsex me here

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19
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Lady Macbeth PTSD

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All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand

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20
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Lady Macbeth Done

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Whats done cant be undone

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21
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Macbeth Vaulting Ambition

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I have no spur to prick the sides of my intent, only vaulting ambition

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22
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King Duncan’s Blood

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Here lay Duncan, his silver skin laced with his golden blood,

23
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Macbeth Confined to Fears

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confined, bound in to saucy doubts and fears.

24
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Malcolm about Scotland’s suffering

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It weeps, it bleeds, and each new day a gash is added to her wounds.

25
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Macbeth Nihilism

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a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

26
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Macbeth belief in Witches(Macduff Prophecy)

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‘I bear a charmed life, which must not yield/To one of woman born.

27
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Macbeth on Lady Macbeth Death

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She should have died hereafter;

28
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Macbeth described by general in battle

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Brave Macbeth

29
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Lennox on Scotland Under Macbeth

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“a hand accursed’

30
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Malcolm on Macbeth (2)

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tyrant + dead butcher

31
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Witches lack of power

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“Though his bark cannot be lost, Yet it shall be tempest-tossed”

32
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supernatural - Hecate

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“the mistress of your charms”

33
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Witches manipulating Macbeth

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eight kings

33
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Witches on decapitation

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“armed head”

34
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Malcolm test Macduff

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Uproar the universal peace, confound / All unity on earth

35
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Macduff response to Malcolm’s test

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Fit to govern, not to live

36
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Macduff on Scotland

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Bleed, Bleed, poor country!

37
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Banquo response to witches

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neither beg nor fear your favours or your hate

38
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Macbeth on Banquo’s valour

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wisdom that doth guide his valour

39
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King Duncan rewarding Macbeth

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with his former title greet Macbeth

40
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Macbeth bad trait as a ruler

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firstlings of my heart will be the firstlings of my hand

41
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Witches control over Weather

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in thunder, lightning or rain

42
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Macbeth questions himself

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Why do i yield that suggestion whose horrid image doth unfixed my hair

43
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Macbeth on chances of becoming king

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“If chance may have me king , why chance may crown me, without my stir “

44
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Banquo on the instruments of darkness

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the instruments of darkness tell us truths - only to betray

45
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Banquo humours the Three Witches

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

46
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Macbeth on the dagger

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A dagger of the mind

47
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Macbeth on his brain

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heat oppressed brain

48
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Macbeth’s denial

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Thou canst not say i did it

49
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Witches prophecy on Macbeth regarding Macduff

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None of woman born shall harm macbeth

49
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Macbeth encouraging his death

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What’s he that was not born of woman? Such a one am i to fear

50
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Macbeth fearing nothing

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I have forgot the taste of fears

51
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Macbeth bloodlust

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unseamed him from the nave to the chaps

52
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Macbeth’s unchecked ambition

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stars hide your fires, let not light see my black and deep desires

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