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Macbeth Act 1 Flashcards

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1
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  • Stage direction
  • Motif?
  • Symbol for evil
    Pathetic fallacy
A

“Thunder and lightning.”

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  • Power of 3
  • Rhyming couplet, language of witches
  • Characterization
  • Shakespeare’s comment on witchcraft
    Hook for King James - supernatural
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“When shall we three meet again?/In thunder, lightning, or in rain?”

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3
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  • Rhyming couplet - creates sense of witches power
  • Binaries
  • Foreshadowing
    Unsettling feeling…casting a spell? incantation
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“Fair is foul, and foul is fair/hover through fog and filthy air.”

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4
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  • Characterization of Macbeth at beginning of play
  • Elizabethan values - good soldiers
  • Good man turned bad
  • Foreshadowing
    Dramatic irony
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“brave Macbeth - well he deserves that name”

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5
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  • blood Imagery
  • Strong soldier
  • Courageous
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“Which smoked with bloody execution”

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6
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  • Blood imagery - gruesome
    This behaviour is rewarded
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“unseamed him from the nave to th’chaps”

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7
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  • Foreshadowing
  • Blood imagery
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“Fixed his head upon our battlements”

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8
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  • Simile
  • Strong soldiers
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“They were as cannons over-charged with double cracks”

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9
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  • Macbeth and Banquo are strong together
  • Best friends
  • Use of double - witches influence?
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“So they doubly redoubled strokes upon the foe”

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10
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  • Macbeth and Banquo are celebrated
  • Contrast to later in the play
  • Builds dramatic tension
    Characterisation
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“They smack of honour both”

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11
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  • Shakespeare’s commentary on God’s power (God could not save the King)
  • Dramatic irony
  • Fate and destiny
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“God save the King”

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12
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  • Macbeth may be tainted by his title like the previous Thane of Cawdor
  • Characterisation of Macbeth
  • Rewarded for being brutal
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“What he hath lost, noble Macbeth hath won.”

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13
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  • Honourable soldier
  • Foreshadowing
  • clothing imagery
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“Why do you dress me in borrowed robes?”

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13
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  • Foreshadowing
  • Already captured by witches power
  • Foul and fair repetition
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“so foul and fair a day I have not seen.”

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14
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  • Referring to witches
  • Binaries, honest vs. betrayal
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“Win us with honest trifles, to betray’s in deepest consequence.”

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15
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  • Unsettled by witches
  • Nature imagery
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“Make my seated heart knock at my ribs/Against the use of nature?”

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16
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  • Foul vs fair
  • Repetition, rhythm
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“Cannot be ill, cannot be good”

17
Q
  • Unsettled by witches
  • Uncomfortable
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“Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair”

18
Q
  • Nothing is as it seems
  • Building dramatic tension
A

“And nothing is,/but what is not”

19
Q
  • Will not act
  • LM spurs him to act
  • Leave it to fate
A

“Why chance may crown me without my stir”

20
Q
  • Dramatic irony
  • No secrets between friends
A

“Let us speak/our free hearts to each other”

21
Q

“there’s no art to find the mind’s construction in the face”
“He was a gentleman on whom I built an absolute trust”

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  • Thane of Cawdor’s betrayal
  • Foreshadowing, tragic irony
  • King feeling betrayed - naïve, kind
22
Q
  • Light vs dark imagery
  • Change in character
  • Ambition - Macbeth really wants to be King
  • Wrong to show ambition
A

“stars, hide your fires,/let not light see my black and deep desires”

23
Q
  • Metaphor, symbolism
  • Gender roles
A

“full o’th’milk of human kindness”

24
Q
  • Gender roles
  • LM has first thought to murder
  • Give me strength to murder the King - contrast to Elizabethan values
A

“Come, you spirits” “unsex me here”
“fatal entrance of Duncan”

25
Q
  • Not feminine
  • Characterisation
A

“Fill me from the crown to the toe topfull/Of direst cruelty”

26
Q
  • Light and dark imagery
  • Fair and foul
A

“Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark”

27
Q
  • Nature imagery
  • Christian affiliation
  • Metaphor
A

“Your hand, your tongue; look like th’innocent flower/but be the serpent under’t.”

28
Q
  • Shakespeare’s stage directions
  • Bad things must happen at night
  • Light and dark imagery
A

“Hautboys, and torches”

29
Q
  • Duncan is not suspicious
  • Too trusting - fatal flaw
A

“This castle hath a pleasant seat”
“honoured hostess” “fair and noble hostess”

30
Q
  • Macbeth’s soliloquy
  • Not man enough, do without thinking
A

“It were done quickly”

31
Q
  • Belief in heaven and hell
  • God fearing people
  • Knows the difference between good and evil
A

“We’d jump the life to come”
(risk heaven’s punishment)

32
Q
  • Foreshadowing what guilt can do to a person
  • Psychological decline
A

“Return/ to plague th’inventor”

33
Q
  • Witches
  • King believes he is safe
  • Macbeth is deceptive “two-faced”
A

“He’s here in double trust”

34
Q
  • Simile
  • King Duncan is good, no reason to kill him
  • Damnation vs angels - foul and fair, Christian affiliation
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“His virtues/will plead like angels, trumpet-tongued against/the deep damnation of his taking off.”

35
Q
  • Grappling with what decision to make
  • Ambition
  • Personification of ambition - clumsy yet forceful
A

“I have no spur/to prick the sides of my intent, but only/vaulting ambition which o’leaps itself/And falls on th’other”

36
Q
  • People’s opinions of Macbeth
  • Honour
  • Clothing imagery
A

“Which would be worn now in their newest gloss”

37
Q
  • Clothing imagery
  • LM shaming M
A

“Was the hope drunk/Wherein you dressed yourself?”

38
Q
  • LM undermining M
  • Elizabethan gender roles
  • Bad for wife to be stronger - power, gender roles
A

“And live a coward in thine own esteem”

38
Q
  • Calling him a coward
  • Killing Duncan = being a man
  • Strong male values
A

“When you durst do it, then you were a man”

39
Q
  • Imagery - links to babies
  • Violent imagery
  • Shocking, offensive, not feminine
  • LM would rather kill a child rather than break a promise
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“And dashed the brains out, had I so sworn/as you have done to this.”

40
Q
  • Resolve to kill Duncan
  • Part of rhyming couplet
  • Keep up appearances
A

“False face must hide what the false heart doth know”

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