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”
