macbeth Flashcards
‘so foul and fair a day i have not seen’
echoing words of witches
‘fair is foul and foul is fair’
paradox - unbalance of nature
‘for brave Macbeth- well he deserved that name’
war hero
‘say you imperfect speakers’
witches dominate - Macbeth tries to regain power
‘have we eaten the insane root’
links to insanity
‘unsex me here’
removing femininity
‘come to my women’s breasts and take my milk for gall’
contrast between milk and gall
‘leave all the rest to me ‘
lady Macbeth taking responsibility and control
‘is this a dagger i see before me?’
hallucinations
‘a dagger of the mind, a false creation, proceeding from the heat oppressed brain?’
questioning himself - mental suffering
‘mine eyes are made the fools o’th’other senses’
eyes are deceived
‘nature seems dead , and wicked reams abuse the curtained sleep’
nightmares keeping him awake
‘it was the owl that shriek’d, the fatal bellman which gives the sternest good-night’
animal imagery - symbol of death
‘i heard the owl scream and the crickets cry’
animal imagery - symbol of death
‘tis said they eat each other’
balance of the world is unnatural - roles have been revered
‘tis unnatural’
goodness of the world is gone
‘Out ,out brief candle life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player’
Life is short and easily taken -goodness gone
‘I will not be afraid of death and bane , until birnam forest comes to dunstinane’
Rhyming - repeats apparition
Equivocation
‘Hang those that talk of fear’
Ruling through violence
‘I have liv’d long enough’
Pressure getting to Macbeth
‘His secret murder sticking on his hands’
Tools of murder
‘ this disease is beyond my practise’
No one can help lady Macbeth -insanity
‘What’s done cannot be undone’
Juxtaposes with her previous views on regicide
‘Unnatural deeds do breed unnatural troubles’
Justice - regicide causes unnatural consequences
‘God god forgive us all ‘
God is the only help
‘Here’s the smell of the blood still’
Guilt consuming sense
‘Will these hands ne’er be clean?’
Juxtaposes with act 2 scene 2
‘O hell-kite’
Animal imagery reference to hell
‘Violent sorrow seems a modern ecstasy’
Order of world changed
‘Poor country almost afraid to know itself’
Scotland’s suffering
‘Devilish Macbeth’
Evil
‘Bleed bleed poor country . Get tyranny.
Great Tiranny - poor ruler
‘Damn’d all those that trust them’
Makes Macbeth appear foolish
‘But one word more - ‘
Witches have power over Macbeth
‘Laugh to scorn, the power of man, for none of women born shall harm Macbeth’
Equivocation - misleads Macbeth
‘Something wicked this way comes’
Witches emphasise how evil Macbeth is -dehumanising him
‘You lack the season ps of all natures sleep’
Lack of sleep - causing own harm
‘Blood will have blood’
Cycle of unjustified murders
‘ are u a man ?’
Emasculating Macbeth
‘And with thy bloody and invisible hand’
Guilt and stain of regicide
‘O full of scorpions is in my mind’
Mind poisoned by guilt
‘What’s done is done’
Lack of guilt
