Macbeth Flashcards
Stars, hide your fires. Let not light see my dark desires
Rhyming is a link to supernatural and demons abilities to change time of day. Dark used to show deceit
Life is a tale, told by an idiot. Yet signifying nothing
Futility of life. Just a series of battles. Shows MB despair and woe
Look like the innocent flower but be the serpent under’t
Deceitful and the control of lady Macbeth. Scheming. Symbol of betrayal
False face must hide what the false heart doth know.
Fake. Deceitful and betraying the king.
Fair is foul and foul is not fair
Witches speak in riddles. Clearly evil. Believe bad is good and good is bad
Where shall we meet again, in thunder, lightning or in rain
Witches have control over the weather and are evil. The only options are bad weathers
Come you spirits
Lady MB link to supernatural. Evil lady MB. Shows her strength in the begging in
Unsex me here
Gender roles and masculine = ambitious and courageous
Direst cruelty
Evil lady MB. Ambitious and strong
Take my milk for fall you murdering ministers
Same
I am in blood steppes so far that, should I wade no more, to return be more tedious than to go oer it
Has to keep killing. What’s done is done
Oh full of scorpions is my mind
Doesn’t want them there. Different to snakes
Out damned spot I say
Black spot. Marked. Evil. Guilty LMB
No spur to prick the sides of my intent, only vaulting ambition which over leaps itself and falls on the other
Can’t stop. Overstepped a line
Angels are bright still though the brightest fell
Duncan. Divine ROK.
Will all of Neptune’s great ocean not wash these hands clean
Guilty
No, this hand rather turn the green seas incardinine
Guilty
Your sorrows must not be measured by his greatness else it have no end
Duncan is great. DROK. Please James
Something wicked this way comes
Macbeth is worse than the witches even
A little water clears us if this deed
LMB. Irony. Physical cleaning over mental cleaning
At least we’ll die with harness at our backs
Courage and MB valour coming into play from the beginning. Tragic hero.
Unsealed him from the nave to the chaps
Brutal imagery. MB already capable of horror. Admirable as it is protecting the king
Infirm of purpose
strong LMB takes daggers and emasculated MB
Silver skin laced with golden blood
Duncan DROK James
