Macbeth Flashcards
Like valours minion carved out his passage-Macbeth
Violence
Slave to the devil
Values courage whether it is evil or not
Carved-did it of his own free will/gore + violence
Passage-Killing s so many people and he is such a loyal warrior that hes formed a passage
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-Macbeth
Hour-is a short time like his kingship which will be short lived
Out Out- like lady Macbeths out out damn spot and how they both have ended up mad and he will die soon
Brief-adjective that life doesn’tt last long and Macbeth realizes that he isn’t immortal
Candle-TheLadyMacbethwasthelightinginformationhislifeandroidnowhehasnot purposeFragilitylifecan be taken at any point
Walking-Life is constantly moving away from you
Shadow-Macbeth’s now living in-darkness LMB is gone
Most sacrilgious murder-Macduff
Alliteration emphases the unspekable of the event
Sacreligous- goes against god as Duncan was the proper king
The instruments of darkness tell us truths- Banquo
He is skeptical because he knows they want to betray them
Instruments- noun suggests that the witches are pawns to the devil
Tell us truths- He is understanding of there deception but Macbeth is yet to realise
Win us with hones trifles to betrays in deepest consequences-Banquo
Honest trifles- give them a small taste of goodness so they believe the witches
Win us - verb the wiches are trying to make them believe
Betrays in deepest consequence- give them lots of trouble in the future
He juxtuposes Macbeth as he is warry of the witches
Take my milk for gall-Lady Macbeth
Gall-poison she wants to turn everything within her evil
She is barren- lacks femininity
Milk women/feminity and she wants to beckome more powerful
Talking to the devil
All the perfumes of arabia will not sweeten this little hand-Lady Macbeth
She is loosing her mind
Shows her guilt she is sleep walking
Her subconcious speeks the truth of her feelings
Perfumes-used to mask nasty odours trying to hide her guilt
Little hand-admitting the weakness of her gender unable to sleep she wants her feminity back shows her fragillity
Shakeseare presens women in power as deranged and evil
Out out damn spot-Lady Macbeth
Damned- shes dammned to hell fallen out of gods grace
Out-repition imperative can not get rid of Dundans memory
When you durst do it then you were a man-Lady Macbeth
Were a man- past tense suggests loss of masculinity questioning his manhood
Manipulating him to doing her wishes showing her power
I may poor my spirits in thine ear-Lady macbeth
Pour-active verb she is not waiting for power she is going to seize it
Spirits-alludes to the witches and she has a demonic spirit
Poising his thought with her manipulation
Act like the innocent flowet but be the serpent under it-Lady Macbeth
Religous connotations of Adam and Eve and she is the devil
Flower-feminin and she is contradicting natures plan
Serpent-represents the devil and how he snakes Duncan
Under- down in hell
She is oposing the chain of being
To full o’ th’ milk of human kindness
Manipuilation
She assumes he will hesitate killing duncan
To full-no room for macbeth to change
Milk-milk rots and thats the affect she is having on Macbeth
Human-she acts inhumanly like the devil humans are to easily manipilated
Brave Macbeth-Duncan
Macbeth is honourable at the face but he later kills duncan
Ironic as Macbeth later kills Duncan
Will all great neptunes ocean wash this blood -clean from my hand-Macbeth
Metaphor
Blood-guilt
Oceans-hyperbole as he feels that the blood will never go and his concience will never clear
I have no spur to priclk the side of my intentbut only volting ambition whovh o’laps itself and falls on th’ other-Macbeth
Compares his experience to ridinf a horse
Nothing-no reason to kill Duncan
Prick the sides of intent-metaphor of the horse rider Lady Macbeth forces him to kill Duncan
Vaulting ambition-Ambition is the only reason he has for killing Duncan
Vaulting-The ambition is so powerful it is vaulting over Macbeth
My thought whose murder yet is but fantasised-Macbeth
Whose murder yet is-Alreasdy thinking of who he will kill to take the power
My thought-Macbeth feels unwavering urge to become the most powerful
Fair is foul and foul is fair is foul-Witches
Oxymoron-witches are trying to decieve Macbeth
Equivicous
Shakespear wanted to apease Jacobean society who hated witchs
Hover through the fog and filthy air-Witches
Hover-supernatural withces poses evil hellish magic
Fog and filthy air-Witchcraft and death are related
Fog-covers Gods earth so God can not see the evil acts
Filthy-Witches play Dirty influced by the devil
Unsex me here-Lady Macbeth
She wants to get rid of her femininty
Unsex-Similar to the witches
Don’t shke thy gory locks at me
The real turning point of the play as he is now hallucinating Banquo and is this is the first point at which he goes crazy
So full of scorpions is my mind
He regrests killing duncan the scorpions cause pain and inibility to sleep as the teslon of the scorpion pains him
Is this a dagger I see before me-Macbeth
Dagger-close and personal form of murder shows his relationship with duncan and how he is now betratying that
Hallucinating sent by the witches
Shows the corruption of the witches
Macbeth will become the Thane of Cawdor, Macbeth will become king, and Banquo’s descendants will be kings
Supernatural Influence: The witches represent fate and the supernatural. Shakespeare uses them to show how temptation and ambition can corrupt.
Foreshadowing: The prophecy is a plot trigger. Each part becomes true, making Macbeth trust them more—and spiral into paranoia and murder.
Ambition Unleashed: Macbeth wasn’t planning to be king, but once the seed is planted, his ambition grows wild.
Banquo vs. Macbeth: Banquo is told his descendants will be kings, but he doesn’t act on it—highlighting the contrast between his integrity and Macbeth’s ambition.
Theme Link: Ties into fate vs. free will, the corrupting power of unchecked ambition, and the supernatural.
