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Macbeth Flashcards

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Ambition - awkward reaction of the prophecies

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why do I yield to that suggestion whose horrid image doth unfix my hair And make my seated heart knock at my ribs.

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Ambition - Lady Macbeth follow evil spirits

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unsex me here […] take my milk for gall

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Ambition - Hallucination of Macbeth’s dark thoughts

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dagger of the mind […] a false creation proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain

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Ambition - Not satisfied with the title

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Upon my head they placed a fruitless crown, And put a barren scepter in my gripe

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Ambition - not returning to normal

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I am in blood stepped in so far that should I wade no more, returning were as tedious as going over

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Ambition - Confident

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I bear a charmed life which must not yield To one of woman born

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Ap vs Re - simile at the start

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Look like the innocent flower but be the serpent under it

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Ap vs Re - light imagery

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

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Ap vs Re - Macduff not telling LM about the murder

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The repetition in a woman’s ear would murder as it fell

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Ap vs Re - Malcolm’s warning

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To show an unfelt sorrow is an Office which the false man does easy […] There’s daggers in men’s smiles

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Ap vs Re - Macbeth pretending to be a welcoming king

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Ourself will mingle society And play the humble host

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Ap vs Re - zoomorphism

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O full of scorpions is my mind

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Guilt - Macbeth after murder

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I will go no more. I am afraid to think what I have done

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Guilt - Macbeth against the murder

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as his host, who should against his murtherer shut the door.

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Guilt - ocean cleaning hand

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will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood clean from your hand

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Guilt - sea becoming red

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The multitudinous sea incarnadine, making the green one red

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Guilt - LM spots

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Out, damed spot, Out […] will these hands ne’er be clean?

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Guilt - perfumes

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All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand.

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Supernatural - first scene

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Fair is foul, foul is fair.&raquo_space; so fair and foul a day I have not seen

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Supernatural - LM on spirits

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Come, you spirits That tend on mortal thoughts

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Supernatural - dagger

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Is this a dagger which I see before me […] Thou marshall’st the way that I was going

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Supernatural - witches’ rhyming

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Double, double, toil and trouble; Fire burn and cauldron bubble.

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Supernatural - Macduff’s guilt

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My wife and children’s ghosts willl haunt me still.

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Supernatural - witches making Macbeth confident

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Be bloody, bold and resolute. Laugh to scorn The power of man, for none of woman born shall harm Macbeth.

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M’s feelings - snake

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we have scorched the snake, not killed it. She’ll close herself whilst our poor malice Remains in danger of her former teeth

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M’s feelings - Fleance’s escape

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There the grown serpent lies. The worm that’s fled Hath nature that in time will venom breed.

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M’s feelings - Macbeth saying he’s not scared

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If trembling I inhabit, then protest me The baby of a girl. Hence, horrible shadow

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M’s feelings - Macbeth confident

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What need I fear of thee? […] That will never be. Who can impress the forest, bid the tree Unfix his earth-bound root?

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M’s feelings - not scared of the enemies

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Bring me no more reports; let them fly all […] The mind I sway by, and the heart I bear Shall never sag with doubt or shake with fear.

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M’s feelings - fight

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I’ll fight till, from my bones, my flesh be hacked

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M’s feelings - can’t avoid Macduff

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Of all men else I have avoided thee. But get thee back; my soul is too much charged with blood of thine already.

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Supernatural - Banquo’s first impression to the witches

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so withered and so wild in their attire, That look not like the inhabitants of the earth

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Banquo - foreshadowing events happen to Macbeth

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instruments of darkness tell us truths, Win us with honest trifles, to betray’s In deepest consequence

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Banquo - being loyal to Duncan even Macbeth tries to influence him

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but still keep My bosom franchised and allegiance clear

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Malcolm encourages Macduff to fight against Macbeth

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Be this the whetstone of your sword. Let grief convert to anger. Blunt not the heart, rage it

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Macduff - describing Duncan’s murder

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Most sacrilegious murder hath broke ope The Lord’s anointed temple, and stole thence The life of the building

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Macduff - foreshadow Macbeth’s tyranny

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Lest our old robes sit easier than our new!

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Macduff - country

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Bleed, bleed, poor country. Great tyranny, lay thou thy basis sure For goodness dare not cheque thee

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Macduff - Fight like men

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Let us rather Hold fast mortal sword, and like good men Bestride our down-fall’n birthdom

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Banquo - troubled sleep

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And yet I would not sleep. Merciful powers Restrain in me the cursed thoughts that nature Gives way to in repose

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Banquo - Macbeth’s comment about him

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wisdom that doth guide his valor To act in safety. under him My Genius is rebuked as, it is said, Mark Antony’s was by Caesar

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Kingship - Duncan’s virtues

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plead like angles, trumpet tonged against the deep damnation of his taking off

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Kingship - Duncan angry of former Thane of Cawdor

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No more that Thane of Cawdor shall deceive Our bosom interest. Go pronounce his present death

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Kingship - Duncan like Macbeth’s castle

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hath a pleasant seat; the air Nimbly and sweetly recommends itself unto our gentle senses

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Kingship - Macbeth about Duncan’s death

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His silver skin laced with his golden blood; And his gashed stabs looked like a breach in nature

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Kingship - Macbeth knew his title is gone

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Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player That struts and frets his hour upon the stage, And then is heard no more

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LM - calling Macbeth a coward

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thou esteem’st the ornament of life And live a coward in thine own esteem

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LM - poor cat

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Like the poor cat i’ the adage

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LM - kill her babay

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Have plucked my nipple from his boneless gums And dashed the brains out

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LM - pictures

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The sleeping and the dead are but as pictures; ‘tis the eye of childhood that fears a painted devil

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LM - shame of Macbeth

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I shame to wear a heart so white

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LM - what’s done is done

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Things without remedy should be without regard - what’s done is done

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LM - rather be victim

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Tis safer to be that which we destroy, Than by destruction dwell in doubtful joy

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LM - contrasting thoughts

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what’s done cannot be undone

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Kingship - Malcolm final speech

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We will perform in measure, time and place

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