Macbeth Flashcards
Ambition - awkward reaction of the prophecies
why do I yield to that suggestion whose horrid image doth unfix my hair And make my seated heart knock at my ribs.
Ambition - Lady Macbeth follow evil spirits
unsex me here […] take my milk for gall
Ambition - Hallucination of Macbeth’s dark thoughts
dagger of the mind […] a false creation proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain
Ambition - Not satisfied with the title
Upon my head they placed a fruitless crown, And put a barren scepter in my gripe
Ambition - not returning to normal
I am in blood stepped in so far that should I wade no more, returning were as tedious as going over
Ambition - Confident
I bear a charmed life which must not yield To one of woman born
Ap vs Re - simile at the start
Look like the innocent flower but be the serpent under it
Ap vs Re - light imagery
hide you fires, let not light see my deep and black desires
Ap vs Re - Macduff not telling LM about the murder
The repetition in a woman’s ear would murder as it fell
Ap vs Re - Malcolm’s warning
To show an unfelt sorrow is an Office which the false man does easy […] There’s daggers in men’s smiles
Ap vs Re - Macbeth pretending to be a welcoming king
Ourself will mingle society And play the humble host
Ap vs Re - zoomorphism
O full of scorpions is my mind
Guilt - Macbeth after murder
I will go no more. I am afraid to think what I have done
Guilt - Macbeth against the murder
as his host, who should against his murtherer shut the door.
Guilt - ocean cleaning hand
will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood clean from your hand
Guilt - sea becoming red
The multitudinous sea incarnadine, making the green one red
Guilt - LM spots
Out, damed spot, Out […] will these hands ne’er be clean?
Guilt - perfumes
All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand.
Supernatural - first scene
Fair is foul, foul is fair.»_space; so fair and foul a day I have not seen
Supernatural - LM on spirits
Come, you spirits That tend on mortal thoughts
Supernatural - dagger
Is this a dagger which I see before me […] Thou marshall’st the way that I was going
Supernatural - witches’ rhyming
Double, double, toil and trouble; Fire burn and cauldron bubble.
Supernatural - Macduff’s guilt
My wife and children’s ghosts willl haunt me still.
Supernatural - witches making Macbeth confident
Be bloody, bold and resolute. Laugh to scorn The power of man, for none of woman born shall harm Macbeth.
M’s feelings - snake
we have scorched the snake, not killed it. She’ll close herself whilst our poor malice Remains in danger of her former teeth
M’s feelings - Fleance’s escape
There the grown serpent lies. The worm that’s fled Hath nature that in time will venom breed.
M’s feelings - Macbeth saying he’s not scared
If trembling I inhabit, then protest me The baby of a girl. Hence, horrible shadow
M’s feelings - Macbeth confident
What need I fear of thee? […] That will never be. Who can impress the forest, bid the tree Unfix his earth-bound root?
M’s feelings - not scared of the enemies
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.
M’s feelings - fight
I’ll fight till, from my bones, my flesh be hacked
M’s feelings - can’t avoid Macduff
Of all men else I have avoided thee. But get thee back; my soul is too much charged with blood of thine already.
Supernatural - Banquo’s first impression to the witches
so withered and so wild in their attire, That look not like the inhabitants of the earth
Banquo - foreshadowing events happen to Macbeth
instruments of darkness tell us truths, Win us with honest trifles, to betray’s In deepest consequence
Banquo - being loyal to Duncan even Macbeth tries to influence him
but still keep My bosom franchised and allegiance clear
Malcolm encourages Macduff to fight against Macbeth
Be this the whetstone of your sword. Let grief convert to anger. Blunt not the heart, rage it
Macduff - describing Duncan’s murder
Most sacrilegious murder hath broke ope The Lord’s anointed temple, and stole thence The life of the building
Macduff - foreshadow Macbeth’s tyranny
Lest our old robes sit easier than our new!
Macduff - country
Bleed, bleed, poor country. Great tyranny, lay thou thy basis sure For goodness dare not cheque thee
Macduff - Fight like men
Let us rather Hold fast mortal sword, and like good men Bestride our down-fall’n birthdom
Banquo - troubled sleep
And yet I would not sleep. Merciful powers Restrain in me the cursed thoughts that nature Gives way to in repose
Banquo - Macbeth’s comment about him
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
Kingship - Duncan’s virtues
plead like angles, trumpet tonged against the deep damnation of his taking off
Kingship - Duncan angry of former Thane of Cawdor
No more that Thane of Cawdor shall deceive Our bosom interest. Go pronounce his present death
Kingship - Duncan like Macbeth’s castle
hath a pleasant seat; the air Nimbly and sweetly recommends itself unto our gentle senses
Kingship - Macbeth about Duncan’s death
His silver skin laced with his golden blood; And his gashed stabs looked like a breach in nature
Kingship - Macbeth knew his title is gone
Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player That struts and frets his hour upon the stage, And then is heard no more
LM - calling Macbeth a coward
thou esteem’st the ornament of life And live a coward in thine own esteem
LM - poor cat
Like the poor cat i’ the adage
LM - kill her babay
Have plucked my nipple from his boneless gums And dashed the brains out
LM - pictures
The sleeping and the dead are but as pictures; ‘tis the eye of childhood that fears a painted devil
LM - shame of Macbeth
I shame to wear a heart so white
LM - what’s done is done
Things without remedy should be without regard - what’s done is done
LM - rather be victim
Tis safer to be that which we destroy, Than by destruction dwell in doubtful joy
LM - contrasting thoughts
what’s done cannot be undone
Kingship - Malcolm final speech
We will perform in measure, time and place
