Macbeth Flashcards

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Stars, hide your fires. Let not light see my dark desires

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Rhyming is a link to supernatural and demons abilities to change time of day. Dark used to show deceit

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Life is a tale, told by an idiot. Yet signifying nothing

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Futility of life. Just a series of battles. Shows MB despair and woe

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Look like the innocent flower but be the serpent under’t

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Deceitful and the control of lady Macbeth. Scheming. Symbol of betrayal

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False face must hide what the false heart doth know.

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Fake. Deceitful and betraying the king.

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Fair is foul and foul is not fair

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Witches speak in riddles. Clearly evil. Believe bad is good and good is bad

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Where shall we meet again, in thunder, lightning or in rain

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Witches have control over the weather and are evil. The only options are bad weathers

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Come you spirits

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Lady MB link to supernatural. Evil lady MB. Shows her strength in the begging in

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Unsex me here

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Gender roles and masculine = ambitious and courageous

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Direst cruelty

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Evil lady MB. Ambitious and strong

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Take my milk for fall you murdering ministers

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Same

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I am in blood steppes so far that, should I wade no more, to return be more tedious than to go oer it

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Has to keep killing. What’s done is done

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Oh full of scorpions is my mind

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Doesn’t want them there. Different to snakes

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Out damned spot I say

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Black spot. Marked. Evil. Guilty LMB

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No spur to prick the sides of my intent, only vaulting ambition which over leaps itself and falls on the other

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Can’t stop. Overstepped a line

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Angels are bright still though the brightest fell

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Duncan. Divine ROK.

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16
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Will all of Neptune’s great ocean not wash these hands clean

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Guilty

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No, this hand rather turn the green seas incardinine

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Guilty

18
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Your sorrows must not be measured by his greatness else it have no end

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Duncan is great. DROK. Please James

19
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Something wicked this way comes

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Macbeth is worse than the witches even

20
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A little water clears us if this deed

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LMB. Irony. Physical cleaning over mental cleaning

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At least we’ll die with harness at our backs

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Courage and MB valour coming into play from the beginning. Tragic hero.

22
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Unsealed him from the nave to the chaps

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Brutal imagery. MB already capable of horror. Admirable as it is protecting the king

23
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Infirm of purpose

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strong LMB takes daggers and emasculated MB

24
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Silver skin laced with golden blood

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Duncan DROK James