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Macbeth Flashcards

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Proverbs and Idioms flashcards
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Act 1 Scene 1

Witches

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“Thunder and lightning”

“Fair I foul, and foul is fair”

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Act 1 scene 2

Captain and Duncan talk

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“Fixed his head upon our battlements”captain
“Unseamed him from the nave to the chops”

Duncan
“I valiant cousin!noble gentleman”
“What he hath lost, noble Macbeth hath won”

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Act 1 scene 3

Macbeth and Banquo meet witches

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Macbeth
“So foul and fair a day I have not seen”

Witches
“All hail macbeth! Thane of Cawdor”
“Lesser than Macbeth and Greater”

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Act 1 scene 4

Macbeth given thane of Cawdor

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“Let not light see my black and deep desires”

Macbeth

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Act 1 scene 5

Lady Macbeth soliloquy

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Lady Macbeth
“I fear thy nature is too full o th milk of human kindness”
“ i may pour my spirits in thine ear”
“ come you spirits”
“Unsex me here”
“Fill me from the crown to the toe top full with direst cruelty”
“Take my milk for gall”
“Look like the innocent flower but be the serpent under it”

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Act 1 scene 6

Duncan comes to castle

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Duncan
“This castle hath a pleasant seat”
“Honoured hostess”

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Act 1 scene 7

Plan the murder

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Macbeth
“Our poisoned chalice to our own lips”
“Vaulting ambition whic o’erleaps itself”
We shall proceed no further in this business”

Lady Macbeth
“Plucked my nipple from its boneless gums and dashed the brains out”
“Screw your courage to the sticking place”
“Art thou a feared?”

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Act 2 scene 1

Banquo and Macbeth talk about witches

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Banquo

“Their candles are all out”

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Act 2 scene 2

Duncan’s murder

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Lady Macbeth
“Had he not resembled my father as he slept, I had done’t”
“Infirm of purpose! Give me the daggers”
“ my hands are of your couloir but I shame to wear a heart so white”
“A little water clears us of this deed”

Macbeth
“I could not say amen”
“Sleep no more, Macbeth does murder sleep”
“Will all great Neptune’s oceans wash the bloo clean from my hand?”

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Act 2 scene 3

Portee and aftermath Malcolm and Donalbain flee

2 Macduff and lady Macbeth

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Macduff
“The repetition in a womens ear would murder as it fell”

Lady Macbeth
“Help me hence, ho!” Pretends to faint

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Act 2 scene 4

Roses and old man discuss murder

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Rossé

“Gainst nature still!thriftless ambition, that will ravin up”

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Act 3 scene 1

Macbeth plots Banquos murder

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Banquo
“I fear thou playdst most foully for it”

Macbeth
“It is concluded.banquo, thy souls flight, if it find heaven must find it out tonight”

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Act 3 scene 2

Macbeth’s are anxious

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Macbeth

“O, full of scorpions is my mind, dear wife!”

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Act 3 scene 3

Banquo and fleances murder

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“Fleance escapes”

“We have lost best half of our affair”

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Act 3 scene 4

Banquos ghost

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Macbeth
“There’s blood upon thy face”
“It’s better thee without, than he within”
“I am cabined, cribbed, confined”
“Thou canst not say I did it; never shake thy gory locks at me”
“It will have blood they say-blood will have blood”

Lady Macbeth
“Are you a man?”

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Act 3 Scene 5

Witches meet with Hecate

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Act 3 scene 6

Lennox is suspicious

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Act 4 scene 1

Macbeth returns to witches and three apparitions

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Witches

“Double, double, toil and trouble fire burn and cauldron bubble”

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Act 4 scene 2

Lady Macduff and kids killed

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Act 4 scene 3

Macduff finds out about family and wants revenge

1 Malcolm

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Malcolm

“Angels are bright still, thigh the brightest fell”

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Act 5 scene 1

Lady Macbeth sleep walks

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Lady Macbeth
“Out damned spot! Out I say”
“The thane of fife had a wife- where is she now”
“All the perfumes of Arabia won’t sweeten this little hand.o,o,o!”
“Who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him”

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Act 5 scene 2

English army approaches

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Act 5 scene 3

Macbeth hears of army but isn’t afraid

3 Macbeth

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Macbeth
“Till Birnam wood remove to dunsinane, I cannot taint with fear”
“I have lived long enough”
“I’ll fight till from my bones my flesh be hacked. Give me my armour.”

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Act 5 scene 4

Army instructed to get branches from Birnam wood

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Act 5 scene 5

Lady Macbeth kills herself

2 Macbeth and stage

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“A cry of woman within”

Macbeth
“I have almost forgotten the taste of fears”

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Act 5 scene 6

Attack on Macbeth begins

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Act 5 scene 7

Siward killed

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Act 5 scene 8

Macbeth and macduff fight

2 Macduff and Macbeth

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Macduff
“From his mother’s womb untimely ripped”

Macbeth
“I will not yield, to kiss the ground before young malcolms feet”

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Act 5 scene 9

Malcolm becomes king

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“Re-enter Macduff with Macbeth’s head”

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