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, knows he is 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 he consequence of regicide.
” th’assassination and consequence”
teach others our crime then return against us
” but in the cases, we still have judgement here that we but teach bloody instructions”
stain or regicide, foreshadow how they are marked
” when we have mark’d with blood those sleepy two of his own chamber, us’d their way daggers, that they have done’t ?
insanity, hallucinations.
” is this dagger which i see before me, the handle towards my hand?”
Macbeth doubts himself, insanity.
“a dagger of the mind, a false creation, proceeding from the heat- oppressed brain?”
themes of dreams and nightmares, regicide is unnatural.
” nature seems dead, and wicked dreams abuse the curtain’d sleep. witchcraft celebrates”
rhyming couplets influence of witches
“it is concluded. Banquo, thy sou;’s flight, if it find heaven, must find it out tonight.
metaphor mind is poisoned
“o, full of scorpions is my mind, dear wife! Thou know’st that banquo and his fleance lives”
symbol of guilt and murder
“there’s blood upon thy face”
directed at the ghost signs of insanity.
“never shake thy gory locks at me”
insanity, confusion, paranoid
” this is more strange than such a murder is”
deception and evil
” and to our dear friend banquo”
animal imagery , dehumanises himself
“Russian bear, rhinoceros, th’hycran tiger”
the fear of the ghost removes his masculinity
” why so, being gone, i am a man again.”
rhyming couplets, links to witches and supernatural
” strange things i have in head that will to hand, which must be acted ere they may be scann’s
repetition of imperative he is trying to control them
” howe’er you come to know it, answer me. even till destruction sickens: answer me”
Macbeth decides to have Macduff family killed
” his wife, his babes, and all unfortunate souls that trace him in his line.
witches corrupt all around them, irony shows his lack of control.
” infected be the air whereon they ride, and damn’d those that trust them.”
Macbeth is confident he is invinsable
” till birnam wood remove to dunsinane, i cannot taint with fear”
mental illness, nature imagery
” rooted sorrow, troubles of the brain”
imperative mirrored Lady Macbeth speech more manly
” put mine armour on; give me my stuff”
rhyme couplets influence of witches
“i will not be afraid of death and bane, till birnam forest come to dusinane”
empathises his power
” i have almost forgot the taste of fears”
metaphor shows the fidgety of life
” out, out, brief candle, life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage”
life has become meaningless without his wife
“told by an idiot, full of sound and fury signifying nothing”
empathises Macbeth cruelty and afraidness
if thou speak’st false, upon the next tree shall thou hang alive”
