Macbeth Flashcards
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‘Fair is foul and foul is fair’
The witches, 1.1.12
- Alliteration
- Repetition
- Oxymoron-two words contradicting each other
- Macbeth repeats this later(GCOB)
‘Unseam’d him from the nave to the chaps’
‘Smoked with bloody execution’
Captain, 1.2.22, 1.2.18
- Put his sword in and pulled up
- Brutal
- Flaming swords mentioned in the bible
- Killed lots of people
- Brutal description
‘Brave’
‘noble
‘worthy’
‘valiant’
Captain/Duncan, 1.2.16, 1.2.67, 1.2.10, 1.2.24
- Praise at the start of the play
- Starts off as a high status character ready for a large downfall
- Duncan being too trusting
‘So foul and fair a day I have not seen’
Macbeth 1.3.36
- Bad and good
- Opposite to the witches on the GCOB but similar in what he chooses to say
- Alliteration
‘Stars hide your fires, let not light see my black and deep desires’
‘I have no spur to prick the sides of my intent., only vaulting ambition’
Macbeth 1.4.50, 1.7.26
- Light/Darkness theme
- People believed in astrology so it would be topical
- He knows his ideas are bad
- Asking the stars to not show light so people can’t see what he is doing
- He is justifying why he should kill the king
- No reason apart from his ambition
- Vaulting because it is topical in that sentance because of the horse words like spur and prick the sides
‘Come you spirits…unsex me here’
‘Pour my spirits in thine ear’
Lady Macbeth, 1.5.39-40, 1.5.23
- Commanding word
- Talking to opposites on the GCOB
- Asking for her femeninity to be taken from her
- Commanding word
- Asking Macbeth and trying to convince him
- Poison poured by Hamlet’s stepfather into the ear of his his sleeping brother who was king
‘Look like the innocent flower but be the serpent under’t’
Lady Macbeth, 1.5.64
- Simile
- Act like nothing is wrong
- Adam and Eve snake convincing them to eat the apple from the tree
‘Macbeth has murdered sleep’
‘Look on it again, I dare not’
‘Amen stuck in my throat’
‘Would all great Neptunes ocean wash this blood from my hands’
Macbeth 2.2.39, 2.2.55, 2.2.35, 2.2.63
- Sleep symbolising peace and tranquility
- He will never be peaceful again and will always be guilty
- Macbeth symolised with violence and murder
- Macbeth cannot bare to think what he had just done
- Macbeth can’t say amen because he feels guilty
- Going against Divine Right of Kings and by God chooding the King and it causing distruption if he is untimely murdered
1.He has enough blood on his hands to turn the whole sea red
2.Neptune was Roman god of water and the sea
‘A little water clears us of this deed’
Lady Macbeth 2.2.70
- Denying the guilt
- Imasculating Macbeth saying he is worrying
- Opposite to Maceths veiw of the whole ocean not being able to
‘Some say the Earth was feverous and did shake’
Lennox, 2.3.55
- Personifying the earth
- Showing that the storm outside Macbeth’s castle represents his feelings and conflict
- Divine right of Kings so that killing the King causes destruction
‘Tis the eye of childhood that fears a painted devil’
Lady Macbeth, 2.2.57
- Saying that Macbeth is like a child having nightmares
- Saying it is just a painting and there is nothing to be scared of
‘To be thus is nothing but to be safely thus’
‘O full of scorpions is my mind, dear wife’
Macbeth, 3.1.49, 3.2.37
- There is no point being King if you can’t remain it
- He needs to kill anyone who challenges his position
- Scorpions are poisionous
- Dear wife, respecting
- O means emotion
- Regret and guilt
- Metaphor
- Can’t think straight
‘I am in blood stepped in so far’
‘Be innocent of the knowledge, dearest chuck, until thou applaud the deed’
Macbeth, 3.4.136, 3.2.45
- Saying he should go all the way
- He is in a puddle of blood of all the people he ahs killed
- Can’t wade anymore because the blood is blocking him
- Asking her to be innocent of the evil
- He doesn’t want to drag his wife down
- Wants recognition for killing Banquo on his own
‘Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow’
‘Life is a tale told by an idiot signifying nothing’
Macbeth, 5.5.18, 5.5.25
- Life goes on for everyone else after death
- Lots of ideas about the pointlessness and futility of life
- Life is pointless and our short time on earth will be useless in the grand scheme of things
‘The Thane of Fife had a wife’
‘Hell is murky’
‘Out, damn spot’
‘All the perfues of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand’
Lady Macbeth, 5.1.38, 5.1.32, 5.1.31, 5.1.44
- Talking about the Murder of Macduff’s wife
- She is in heaven
- She doesn’t know where she is going in hell
- Commanding
- Damn is related to the devil and related to hell a line earlier
- Similar to all of Neptunes ocean
- LM and M switch roles
- Hyperbole
‘I will try the last’
Macbeth, 5.8.32
- He will not give up
- He will die fighting
- Noble way of death
‘This dead butcher and his fiend-like queen’
Malcom, 5.9.35
- Macbeth hacking up the body, unseamed
- She killed herself
- She was evil
