Macbeth Flashcards
Macbeth is influenced by the witches, echoing the witches words
“So foul and fair a day i have not seen”
Rhetorical question links to religion and evil. motif of clothing
“why do you dress me in borrow’d robes”
paranoid. supernatural fear. He knows he betraying
nature
“whose horrid image doth unfix my hair and make my seated heart knock at my ribs against the use of nature?
If Macbeth kills Duncan then it will end.
“might be the be-all and the end-all-here”
Macbeth doesn’t want consequences of regicide
“th’assassination and consequences”
teach others our crimes which then return against us
“but in these cases, we still have judgement here that we but teach bloody instructions”
stain of regicide. foreshadows how they are marked
“when we have mark’d with blood those sleepy two of his own chamber, and us’d their very daggers, that they have done’t?”
insanity and hallucination
“is this a dagger which i see before me, the handle towards my hand?”
Themes of dreams and nightmares. Regicide is unnatural
“nature seems dead, and wicked dreams abuse the curtain’d sleep. Witchcraft celebrates”
life will be perfect when Banquo’s dead
“Who wear our health but sticky in his life, which in his death were perfect”
Rhyming couplets and influence of the witches
“it is concluded. Banquo, thy soul’s flight, if it find heaven, must find it out tonight.”
metaphor, mind is poisoned. people aren’t happy until they are dead
“O,full of scorpions is my mind, dear wife! Thou know’st that Banquo and his Fleance lives”
symbol of quilt and murder
“there’s blood upon thy face”
directed at the ghost - signs of insanity
“never shake thy gory locks at me!”
insanity and confusion shows he is paranoid
“this is more strange than such a murder is”
