macbeth Flashcards
stars hide your fires, let not light see my black and deep desired
stars- guidance, pious, ignores, hubris
imperatives + alliteration - authority, desperation to conceal, secrecy, deceit, passion
red + black- violent, evil, hell, m corrupted mind, embrace evil, willingness to transcend the boundaries of morality in pursuit of power
light v dark- juxtaposition, pure and moral order and sinful- irresistible allure of power , m inner conflict
ASIDE- private thoughts- truth, a v r
i have no spurs to prick the sides of my intent only vaulting ambition which oleaps itself and falls on the other
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hubristic- going to fail but does it anyway
soliloquy- telling truth
only thing motivating him is his ambition harmattan
too full of the milk of human kindness
too compassionate, challenges masc, emasculate him, mataphore- stereotypically feminine, nurturing
ironic LM less fem than M, reverse gender roles
OR views him as a child who needs to be nurtured - LM power over him
milk- symbol of how pure he was before everything- white, innocence
false face must hide what the false heart doth know
iambic pent and rhyming couplets- full certainty, control and confidence to lie
fake facade, keep emotions invisible, accepting deceiving to become king
questioning own sense of right and wrong
smoked with bloody execution
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used so much, heat of battle, reoccurring motif of guilt- foreshadows fat and guilt
here he is proud for killing- patriotism
juxtaposition to later
is this a dagger which i see before me
symbol of guilt, intended murder, assassins tool not soldiers- dishonesty
only 1 sense recognised it- confused, conflicted mind
staging- sometimes not shown- hallucinating, mental instability
not iambic pent- disrupts rhyme- disrupts natural order
stay you imperfect speakers
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tempted, weak
imperatives, desperate to know about his title, self and self centred
sparrows, eagles or the hare, the lion
eagles- gold, royalty, authority
lion- predator, fearless, king jungle, ambition to be king, powerful, on royal coat of arms - royalty
b and m described
will all great neptunes oceans wash third blood clean from my hands? no
hyperbole: magnitude of guilt, ocean can’t cleanse soul
hand- his responsibility so he has to pay consequence
haunting him stain will be reminder of his crime
blood- reoccurring metaphor, irreversible moral stain on physic, never live peacefully, harmattan has lead him to moral abyss immense and unmanageable burden, rq- answers it, knows he will always have guilt, tragic hero, divine right of kings- experience anagnorisis (realisation)
disdaining fortune with his brandishing steel
won against all odds, against what should of happened, foreshadows disrupting natural order
brandished- aggressive verb, macbeths warrior status
steal- mirrors macbeth, strong, powerful
like valour’s minion carved out his passage
verb- butcher,
easy, fearless, sculptures, his war and killing is spectacular, valour’s minion- brave, personified,
epitome of courage and chivalry,
unfix my hair and seated heart knock at my ribs
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unnerved when thinking about killing duncan, heart beats fast and hairs stand on end, acting unnaturally, heart isn’t seated- calm and steady but knocking alarming fear
so foul and fair a day i have not seen
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echoing the witches, thinking lots about them that he copies lang, audiences doubting him + what choice he will make,
why do you dress me in borrowed robes?
symbol of royalty and authority, addressed in title that wasn’t his, foreshadows he takes the kings robes, questioning now but accepting later, immoral
dearest partner of greatness- he calls lm
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2 business partners, equal, but she’s women so lower, adam came first, not appreciated in society, he regards her as equal giving her power to control him- his own fault
heat oppressed brain
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so much turmoil of killing king, brain in hell, painful, burning him inside to make a decision, conflicted mind
god bless us + i couldn’t say amen
isolated from god, committed ultimate sin, regicide, defines himself as murderer, knows he’s done wrong but ambition and heat of the moment fuels him
mulititudinous seas incarnadine
red, enough blood to make whole ocean red, guilt will change his whole life, understands that, great moral stain on physche
tis unnatural
link between weather and killing king, gods anger, scotland is chaotic, old manx represents scotland, bewildered and afraid, nothing as bad as this
to be thus is nothing but to be safely thus
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not even satisfied with what he’s got-knows he’s guilty, never be happy and free of guilty
o full of scorpions is my mind dear wife
plural - extent of pain, state of termoil, physics pain, never be at peace, looses sympathy- don’t to himself
be innocent if the knowledge dearest chuck
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demeaning, excluded from plans, juxtaposes partner of greatness, women put back in their place, not powerful for long, futile nature
better be with the dead
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regret, he’s still suffering, duncan’s peaceful, selfish, inured of feeling guilt, fearful of consequences not action
tables full
mentally unstable, only he can see it, manifestations of guilt, never be at peace again, knows his position isn’t rightfully his, anxious paranoid someone will take his position
