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Macbeth Flashcards

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How he is described at the beginning (valour)

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For brave Macbeth (well he deserves that name)

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How he is described at the beginning (violence)

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He unseam’d him from the nave to th’ chaps,
And fix’d his head upon our battlements

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How he is described at the beginning (by L. M.)

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Great Glamis, worthy Cawdor

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How he is described at the end (by witches)

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Something wicked

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How he is described at the end (Macduff)

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Black, devilish

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Words that echo the witches’

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So fair and foul a day I have not seen

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Initial reaction to the prophecy (truth)

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Two truths are told, as happy prologues / To the swelling act / Of the imperial theme

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Initial reaction to the prophecy (stir)

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If chance will have me king, why then chance may crown me, / Without my stir

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The best is yet to come

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Glamis, and Thane of Cawdor: / The greatest is behind

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What he wants from the Witches

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Stay, you imperfect speakers, tell me more

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Conflict caused by the prophecy

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If good, why do I yield to that suggestion / Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair / And make my seated heart knock at my ribs / Against the use of nature?

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His shame in his thoughts

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Stars, hide your fires, / Let not light see my black and deep desires

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His affection for L. M.

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My dearest love

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What he initially wanted to do about the prophecy

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We will proceed no further in this business

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He is interrupted

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We will speak further—

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What L.M. thinks of his nature

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I fear thy nature, / It is too full o’ th’ milk of human kindness / To catch the nearest way

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L.M.’s reaction to his fear

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But screw you courage to the sticking-place, / and we’ll not fail

18
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Questioning his masculinity

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Are you a man?

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Saying he is no longer a man

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When you durst do it, then you were a man

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What L.M. thinks of him

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Thou wouldst be great, / Art not without ambition, but without / The illness should attend it

21
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Vision of dagger

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Art thou but / a dagger of the mind, a false creation, / Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?

22
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Blood in his hands

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This is a sorry sight

23
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The voice he imagined after killing Duncan

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Sleep no more: / Macbeth does murder sleep

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L.M. after the murder

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What’s done, is done

25
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The quality that becomes his undoing

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I have no spur / To prick the sides of my intent, but only / Vaulting ambition which o’erleaps itself / And falls on th’other

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Paranoia (they are not yet in full power)

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We have scorch’d the snake, not killed it

27
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Paranoia (going mad)

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O, full of scorpions is my mind, dear wife

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Kingship is worthless

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To be thus is to be nothing, but to be safely thus

29
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Turning point in his relationship with L.M.

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Be innocent of the knowledge, dearest chuck

30
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His reaction to the second prophecy

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What’s he / That was not born of woman? Such a one / Am I to fear or none

31
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Arrogance from second prophecy

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But swords I smile at, weapons laugh to scorn, / Brandished by man that’s of a woman born

32
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When he must fear

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Till Birnam Wood remove to Dunsinane, / I cannot taint with fear

33
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His courage comes back

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

34
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Asking the doctor about L.M.

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Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased, / Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow

35
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Realising the impact of everything he has done

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For Banquo’s issue have I fil’d my mind; / For them, the gracious Duncan have I murdered, / Put rancours in the vessel of my peace / Only for them, and mine eternal jewel / Given to the common enemy of man

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His guilt setting in

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I am cabin’d, cribb’d, confin’d, bound in / To saucy doubts and fears

37
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His end view of himself

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A tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing

Macbeth Quotes (14 decks)

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