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Macbeth Flashcards

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Quotes that relate Macbeth with the theme guilt

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-‘will all great neptunes oceans wash this blood clean from my hands’
- ‘sleep no more’
- ‘is this a dagger which I see before me?’

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Quotes that relate Macbeth to ambition

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  • ‘art without ambition but without the illness should attend it’
  • ‘stay you imperfect speakers’
  • ‘champion me to the utterance, take my part in a mortal dual’
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Quotes that link Macbeth and gender

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-‘my dearest partner of greatness’
- ‘of full of scorpions is my mind dear wife’
-‘bring fourth men-children only’

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What quotes link with lady Macbeth and guilt

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  • “she is troubled with thick coming fancies that keep her from rest”
  • “out dammed spot! Out I say!.. will these hands never be clean?
  • “all the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this hand”
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What quotes link lady Macbeth and gender?

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  • “infirm of purpose”
  • “are you a man?”
  • “unsex me here and fill me from the crown to the toe top full of direst”
  • “when you durst do it then you are a man”
  • “so I put up that womanly defence, to say I have done no harm”
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What are the key themes?

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  • supernatural
  • appearance vs reality
  • gender
  • ambition
  • guilt
  • fate
  • light and darkness
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What are the key things that happen in act 1?

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  • the three witches meet Macbeth and banquo
  • Duncan hears the thane of Cawdor has betrayed him
  • Macbeth is seen as a hero
  • Macbeth and banquo hear the prophecies
  • Duncan appoints Malcolm air to the throne
  • Duncan plans to meet Macbeth
  • lady Macbeth reads macbeths letter
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What are the key things that happen in act 2?

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  • Macbeth has doubts and sees a vision of a dagger
  • he kills Duncan
  • LM has to finish the job by wiping blood on the drunk guards
  • Macduff discovers Duncan’s body
  • Macbeth kills the guards
  • Malcolm and Donolbain flee
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What are the key things that happen in act 3?

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  • Banquo suspects Macbeth for Duncan’s murder
  • Macbeth orders banquo and fleance murdered but fleance escapes
  • Macbeth sees the ghost of Banquo at the banquet. He goes a bit crazy, LM tries to calm him
  • Macduff didn’t attend the banquet because he is sus of Macbeth
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What are the key events in act 4?

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  • Macbeth visits the 3 witches they tell him the next prophecies
  • Macbeth orders the murder of macduffs family
  • in England Macduff begs Malcolm to return to the throne
  • Malcolm tests macduff’s loyalty then agrees to the war against Macbeth
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What are the key events of act 5?

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  • LM has gone mad with guilt she sleepwalks and tries to clean blood from her hand. She commits suicide.
  • many of macbeths supporters decide to help Malcolm he isn’t worried as he still believes the prophecies.
  • Macbeth confronts Macduff and realises he wasn’t born woman born he had a caesarean.
  • they fight and Macbeth is killed and Malcolm is named king.
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What quotes show Macbeth being honourable at the end of the play?

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  • ‘I will not yield’
  • ‘before my body I throw my warlike shield’
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What quotes show Macbeth as a tryrant?

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  • “tyrant whose sole name blisters out tongues” - Malcolm
  • “something wicked this way comes”
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What quotes show the change in Macbeth and LM’s relationship?

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  • “ be innocent of the knowledge dearest chuck”
  • “ she should have died here after”
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Analyse “out brief candle”

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Suggests he is still slightly fond of his late wife, “brief” suggests that life is short and “candle” suggests that he gave her light. Could also suggests that she guided her in many ways.

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Analyse “dead butcher and his fiend-like queen”

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Despite them growing apart and being very different characters by the end of the play we see that through others eyes their actions have made them to be seen as evil murderers and that is it

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Analyse “she should have died here after”

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Act 5, Macbeth acts it is inconvenient as he is about to go to battle showing he doesn’t have time to mourn. This is a very cold response and shows his detachment for his wife. Contrasts with the beginning of the play.

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What moments in the play does Shakespeare used to make the audience hate Macbeth less?
Why does Shakespeare do this?

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  • in act 2 scene 2 Macbeth kills Duncan however it is done off stage otherwise the audience would hate him
  • also the murders of Macduff’s family and Banquo are not done my Macbeth.
  • in act 5 scene 5 Heccaty tells the witches, “a wayward son, spiteful and wrathful who as others do loves for his own ends not for you” = he is not a true son of evil

This is done because it makes us sympathise with Macbeth. He was never meant to be an outright villain, he is a tragic hero someone who is a hero but their fatal flaw makes them a villain. The audience must understand this to get the message and won’t if they outright hate Macbeth

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What quotes show Banquo as suspicious of the witches?

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  • “neither beg your fear, your favours nor your hate”
  • “why do you start” - asking Macbeth why he cares so much
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In Macbeth’s soliloquy in act 1 scene 7, what quotations show he has decided against killing Duncan?

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  • “I have no spur to prick the sides of my intent but only vaulting ambition”
  • “first I am his kinsman and his subject” - shows how he still values loyalty
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In act 1 scene 7 what does LM use to manipulate Macbeth into committing regicide?

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  • ‘ from this time such I account my love’ - basically saying if you loved me you would do it
  • ‘ when you durst do it then you are a man’
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Why does LM manipulating Macbeth show her as countertypical in the Jacobean era?

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  • She isn’t being submissive towards Macbeth
  • Macbeth is a strong character and for her to be able to manipulate him shows strength
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What quotes shows the play in general as being stereotypical towards feminism?

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  • “the repetition in a woman’s ear, would murder as it fell”
  • “ I could play the woman with my eyes” - he could cry like a woman
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Analyse “ spirits that tend on mortal thoughts unsex me here and fill me from crown to the toe with direst cruelty”

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  • she feels her femininity is a weakness and she must get rid of it to do what she has to do
  • shows her as subverting the norm for Jacobean era
  • she is calling on the supernatural which would have been illegal in the Jacobean and maybe even gotten her killed. The audience would have been shocked and seen LM as a fearless and powerful character
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“[thunder and lightning]”

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Stage directions
Showing the mood and ominous atmosphere.
The anger of the witches reflects how something bad is going to happen
Creates a sense of disorder from the start

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“When the battle is lost and won”

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  • Duncan has won yet he has traitors.
  • paradox - how can a battle be lost and won?
  • the witches don’t talk how others talk
  • linking supernatural with disorder

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