Macbeth Flashcards
Anagnorisis
Character realising their downfall. E.g LM killing herself, Birman woods
Catharsis
Release of emotions. E.g blood thirsty rampage, pity for his ambition
My ___ heart knocks at my ___
Act 1 Sc 3 Macbeth “My seated heart knocks at my ribs”
“Fair is ___ and ___ is fair”
A1 S1 Witches: “Fair is foul and foul is fair
“When the battle is ___ and ___”
A1 S1 Witches “When the battle is lost and won”
“For ___ Macbeth - well he deserves that name - ___ fortune, with his banished steel, which smoked with bloody ___.”
A1 S2 Captain “For brave Macbeth - well he deserves that name - disdaining fortune, with his banished steel, which smoked with bloody execution.
“So ___ and ___ a day I have not seen”
A1 S3 Macbeth “So foul and fair a day I have not seen”
“___ of darkness tell us ___”
A1 S3 Banquo: “instruments of darkness tell us truths”
“___ you spirits that ___ on ___ thoughts, unsex me here”
A1 S5: Lady Macbeth: “Come, you spirits that tend on mortal thoughts.”
“If ___ may have me king, why, chance may crown me”
A1 S3: Macbeth: “If chance may have me king, why, chance may crown me”
” Yet do I fear thy ___; it is too full o’ the milk of ___ kindness”
A1 S5 Lady Macbeth: “yet do I fear thy nature; it is too full o’ the milk of kindess”
“Let ___ hide your fires not my black and ___ desires
A1 S4 Macbeth: “Let stars hide your fires not my black and deep desires” (heroic couplet) (metaphor) (Stars, GCOB) (euphaism for regicide)
“Look like the ___ flower but be the ___ under’t”
A1 S5 Lady Macbeth: “Look like the innocent flower but be the serpent under’t”
“This castle has a ___ seat the air ___ and sweet recommend itself onto our ___ senses “
A1 S6 Duncan: “This castle has a Pleasant seat the air nimbly and sweet recommend itself onto our gentle senses “
I have no ___ to prick the sides of my ___ but only ___ ambition which o’erleaps itself and ___ onto the th’other
A1 S7 Macbeth “I have no spur to prick the sides of my intent but only vaulting ambition which o’erleaps itself and falls onto the th’other”
Is this a ___ See before me? the ___ toward my hand?
A2 S1: Is this a dagger I see before me? The handle toward my hand?
Will all great ___ ocean wash this blood ___ from my hand?
A2 S2: Will all great Neptunes ocean wash this blood clean from my hands? (Macbeth.)
There are ___ in men’s smiles
“There are daggers in men’s smiles” (donalbain)
What is regicide?
Killing a king (Duncan)
“Full of ____ is my mind dear wife”
A3 S2 Macbeth: “Full of scorpions is my mind dear wife”
A3 S1 Banquo “and I ___ thou has ___ most foully for it”
A3 S1 Banquo “and I fear thou has played most foully for it”
“we have ___ the snake but not ___ it”
A3 S2 Macbeth: “we have scorched the snake but not killed it”
“I am ___ ___ ___. Bound in ___ doubts and fears”
A3 S4: Macbeth “I am cabin’d, cribb’d, confin’d. Bound in saucy doubts and fears”
“Thou canst not say I did it; never ___ thy gory ___ at me!”
A3 S4: “Thou canst not say I did it; never shake thy gory locks at me!”
“By the ___ of my thumbs, something ___ this way comes.”
A4 S1 Witches “By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes.”
“Angels are ___ though ___ fell”
A4 S3 Malcom “Angels are bright though brightest fell”
“Out ___ spot, Out I say! Hell is ___”
A5 S1 LM “Out damned spot, Out I say! Hell is murky”
“Here is the smell of ___ still; all the perfumes of ___ would not ___ this little hand”
A5 S1 LM : “Here is the smell of blood still; all the perfumes of Arabia would not sweeten this little hand”
Malcom A5 S9: “of this dead butcher, and his fiend-like queen”
“of this ___ butcher, and his ___-like queen”
“I bear a ___ life which must not yield to one of woman born.
A5 S8 Macbeth: “I bear a charmed life which must not yield to one of woman born.
"”Macduff was from his mothers womb ___.”
A5 S8 Macduff: “Macduff was from his mothers womb untimely ripp’d.”
Examples of antithesis
“fair is foul and foul is fair”
“When the battle is lost and won”
Trochaic Tetrameter eg
“Double double toil and trouble fire and burn cauldron bubble”
8 syllables per line makes the reader uneasy because their lines are much more like riddles and much shorter than others.
Dichotomy
a contrast
Epitome
a perfect example
what is epizeuxis?
emphasis on a repeated word. E.g “double, double toil and trouble”
Grotesque
ugly
sibilance
use of ‘s’ close to each other
couplet
rhymed pair of lines
anagnorisis
when the main character realises their fate
“All hail Macbeth, hail to thee that shalt be ___ hereafter.”
“All hail Macbeth, hail to thee that shalt be king hereafter.”
“___ Crown”
“Fruitless crown”
“They ___ a ___ crown and put a ___ sceptre in my grip”
“They placed a fruitless crown and put a barren sceptre in my grip” (Cultivation) (Jaco. beliefs ab witches destroying crops)
What plot is macbeth linked to?
1605 gunpowder plot
“‘Tis safer to be that which we destroy/ than destruction dwell in doubtful joy”
“‘Tis safer to be that which we ___/ than destruction dwell in ___ joy” (peripertia) (foreshadows her death) (polyptoton shows that unch. ambition only results in dire loss)
“His ___ plead like ___”
Macbeth “His virtues plead like angles” (similie) (connotations of pure)
“each new ___/ new ___ howl, new orphans cry, new ___”
“each new morn/ new widows howl, new orphans cry, new sorrows”
“Modest wisdom plucks me from overcredulous haste”
Malcom: “Modest wisdom plucks me from overcredulous haste”
“Here lay Duncan with his silver skin and his golden blood”
“Here lay Duncan with his silver skin and his golden blood” (connotations of holy)
How many time is blood mentioned in the play?
48
“give me the ___”
“give me the daggers”
“be ___ of the knowledge dearest chuck”
“be innocent of the knowledge dearest chuck”
Usurper
a person who takes a position of power or importance illegally or by force.
“This ___ who name blisters our tongue
“This tyrant who’s name blisters our tongue” (hyperbolic metaphor)
“He is ___ so valiant”
“He is full so valiant” Duncan talking about Macbeth.
