Macbeth Flashcards
“Fair is foul and foul is fair”
Unnatural, supernatural
“Scotland is suffering”
Suffering
“For brave Macbeth”
Irony, tragic hero
“Macbeth doth murdered sleep”
Sleep (motif), reference to violence
“A little water will clear us of this deed”
Water (sleep), emasculation
“Darkness strangles the travelling lamp”
reference to murder, Great Chain of Being is disordered
“Are you even a man?”
Emasculation
“You’d be so much more the man”
Emasculation
“Out damned spot”
Reference to blood
“Unsex me here”
Supernatural, unnatural
“Take my milk for gall”
Supernatural
“To look like the innocent flower but be the serpent under’t”
Emasculation, evil, unnatural, supernatural
“‘Tis said, they eat each other”
Unnatural, violence
“O mind full of scorpions”
Mental suffering, guilt, unnatural
“Is this a dagger I see before me?”
Mental suffering, hallucinations, regicide
