Macbeth Flashcards

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Stars hide your fires…..

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Let not light see my black and deep desires-Macbeth

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2
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What is ambition

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A power that drives someone to do something

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What is hamartia

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A fatal flaw leading to the downfall of a tragic hero

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Vaulting ambition which o’erleaps itself….

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And falls on th’other-Macbeth

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So foul and fair a…

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Day I have not seen-Macbeth

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6
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I had the most need of blessing…

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And Amen stuck to my throat-Macbeth

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To be thus is nothing….

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But to be safely thus.our fears in Banquo stick deep-Macbeth

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8
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We have scorch’d the snake….

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Not killed it

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9
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O,full of scorpions in….

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My mind dear wife-Macbeth

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10
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Thou canst not say I did it….

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Never shake thy gory locks at me-Macbeth

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Avaunt and quit my sight!let the earth hide thee!thy bones are marrowless…..

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Thy blood is cold thou hast no speculation in those eyes which thou dost glare with-Macbeth

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It will have blood they say….

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Blood will have blood-Macbeth

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13
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That I may pour my….

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Spirits in thine ear-lady Macbeth

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14
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Look like th’innocent flower….

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But be the serpent under’t-lady Macbeth

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15
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But screw your courage to the sticking place….

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And we’ll not fail-lady Macbeth

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16
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Out,dammed spot…..

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Out I say-lady Macbeth

17
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What,will these hands….

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Ne’er be clean-lady Macbeth

18
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All the perfumes of…..

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Arabia will not sweeten this little hand-lady Macbeth

19
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To bed bed…

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There’s knocking at the gate-lady macbeth

20
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What is the symbolism of sleep

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Guilt

21
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Why is the last line LM says to bed to bed to bed significant

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I means she’s overcome with guilt and can’t cope then killers herself

22
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Or have we eaten on the insane root

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That takes the reason prisoner-banquo

23
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What can the devil

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Speak true-banquo

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What is the difference between Macbeth and banquo views on the supernatural

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Macbeth tries to control it and relies on it while banquo questioned it and didn’t let it affect him

25
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Have plucked my nipple from his boneless gums….

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And dashed the brains out-LM

26
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Thou art the best…

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O’th’cut-throats-Macbeth

27
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I am in blood stepped in so far…

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That I should wade no more,returning were as tedious as go o’er-Macbeth

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Give to th’edge o’th’sword his wife….

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His babes,and all unfortunate souls-Macbeth

29
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I’ll fight till from my bones my flesh be….

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Hack’d give me my armour-Macbeth

30
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Direness familiar to my

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Slaughterhouse thoughts-Macbeth

31
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What does hubris mean

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Excessive pride or self confidence