Macbeth Flashcards

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The three witches plot to meet Macbeth on his way home from battle

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When shall we three meet again?
In thunder, lightning, or in rain?

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Macbeth praised for his bravery in winning the battle

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  • O valiant cousin! worthy gentleman! - Duncan
  • brave Macbeth - Captain
  • worthy thane - Ross
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The witches make a prophecy about Macbeth

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First witch: All hail, Macbeth: Hail to thee, Thane of Glamis!
Second witch: All hail, Macbeth! Hail to thee, Thane of Cawdor!
Third witch: All hail, Macbeth, that shall be king hereafter!

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The witches’ prophecy for Banquo

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First witch: Lesser than Macbeth, and greater
Second witch: Not so happy, yet much happier
Third witch: Thou shalt get kings, though thou be none

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Macbeth decides that if he is fated to be king, he will become king without having to do anything

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

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Lady Macbeth calls on the spirits for strength to carry out Duncan’s murder

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Come you spirits;
…unsex me here
And fill me from the crown to the toe top-full
Of direst cruelty.

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Lady Macbeth questions Macbeth’s courage

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Art thou afeard?

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Lady Macbeth uses a metaphor to tell Macbeth that if he stays courageous they won’t fail

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Screw your courage to the sticking place,
And we’ll not fail.

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Macbeth has a vision as he approaches King Duncan’s chamber to kill him

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Is this a dagger which I see before me?

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Donalbain discusses with Malcolm how he feels they are in the company of the person who murdered their father

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Where we are
There’s daggers in men’s smiles

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Macbeth hears voices after killing the king

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Methought I heard a voice cry “Sleep no more!
Macbeth doth murder sleep

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Theme of appearance vs reality

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  • Fair is foul, and foul is fair
  • There’s no art
    To find the mind’s construction in the face
  • False face must hide what the false heart doth know
  • Your face, my thane, is as a book
  • look like the innocent flower,/But be the serpent under’t
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Macbeth seems to revel in the brutality of the battlefield

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  • with his brandished steel, which smoked with bloody execution - Captain
  • he unseam’d him from the nave to the chaps
  • Bellona’s bridegroom
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Macbeth echoing the words of the witches in his first words of the play

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So foul and fair a day I have not seen

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Lady Macbeth worries Macbeth is too kind to carry out the murder

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too full of the milk of human kindness

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Lady Macbeth tells Macbeth to look innocent to deceive the others

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look like the innocent flower/but be the serpent under’t

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Macbeth explains in his soliloquoy when deciding whether to kill Duncan how violent actions often rebound on the perpetrator

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Bloody instructions, which, being taught, return/To plague th’inventor

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Macbeth says that if he is too ambitious he may fail miserably when questioning whether he should kill Duncan

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

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The captain praises Macbeth for winning the battle

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For brave Macbeth - well he deserves that name

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Ross describing Macbeth as the goddess of war’s husband

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That Bellona’s bridegroom

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Banquo describes how evil influences tell us truths to get us to believe lies when warning Macbeth about the witches

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oftentimes, to win us to our harm,
the instruments of darkness tell us truths,
Win us with honest trifles, to betray’s
In deepest consequence

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Macbeth calling for night to kill Duncan

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

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Macbeth argues he is a man

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I dare do all that may become a man;
Who dares do more, is none

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Macbeth lies about his thoughts about the prophecies

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I think not of them

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Macbeth recognizes he has killed too many people to go back to being good
I am in blood Stepp'd in so far, that, should I wade no more, Returning were as tedious as go o'er
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Macduff describing how evil Macbeth is
Not in legions Of horrid Hell can come a devil more damned In evils, to top Macbeth
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Lady Macbeths gruesome declaration of what she would do had she promised to do it
plucked the nipple from his boneless gums, And dashed the brains out
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Quotes that show Macbeth is not all bad
* If chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me * too full of the milk of human kindness
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Part of Macbeth wants to leave prophecies to chance
If chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me
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Macbeth's nihilistic worldview towards the end of the play
Out, out, brief candle. Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player That struts and frets his hour upon the stage And then is heard no more. It is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing.
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Duncan's remark on how you can never truly know what someone is thinking by their appearance
There's no art To find the mind's construction in the face
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Macbeth tells Lady Macbeth he has decided not to kill Duncan
We will proceed no further in this business
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Macbeth's admiration of his wife
She should "Bring forth men-children only" as she is so fearless
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Macbeth pretending to mourn Duncan's death
Had I but died an hour before this chance I had lived a blessed time, for from this instant There's nothing serious in mortality
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Macbeth describing Banquo
royalty of nature
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Apparition saying no one birthed by a woman will harm Macbeth
none of woman born Shall harm Macbeth
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When deciding to kill Macduff's family, Macbeth resolves not to pause before committing atrocities
From this moment The very firstlings of my heart shall be The firstlings of my hand
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Macbeth's reaction to his wife's death
She should have died hereafter
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Macbeth resolves to die with soldierly pride in battle
At least we'll die with harness on our back
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Lady Macbeth telling Macbeth people can easily read his thoughts
Your face, my thane, is as a book, where men May read strange matters
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Macbeth doesn't want to fight Macduff because he has already caused him enough suffering
My soul is too much charged With blood of thine already
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Macbeth is alarmed by the ghost of Banquo at the dinner table
Hence, horrible shadow!
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Lady Macbeth's hallucinations of blood on her hands
Out, damned spot! Out, I say!