Macbeth Act 1 Flashcards
Which character is easily deceived?
Duncan
Rebel Macbeth Killed; Scottish thane who had led a rebellion against King Duncan
Macdonwald
This Play setting is where?
11th century Scotland
Duncan’s sons
- Malcolm
- Donaldbaine
Macbeth’s 3 names the witches called him
- Thane of Glamis
- Thane of Cawdor
- King to be
“So foul and fair a day I have not seen”
- has a connection with Macbeth and the witches, rainy and many men died, and Macbeth’s side won both battles
Who shames Macbeth and his manhood; coaxes him to kill Duncan?
Lady Macbeth
Who is analyzing what the witches are doing?
Macbeth
Who is the Prince of Cumberland?
Malcolm
“There’s no art to find the mind’s construction in the face”
Duncan is unable to see them for what they truly are
What is the name of Macbeth’s Castle?
Inverness
6 Reasons for not wanting to murder Duncan:
1- he dread the after effect; consequences
2- Duncan trusts him as a loyal subject
3- Duncan is his cousin
4- Duncan is his quest and Macbeth owes him safety
5- Duncan is a good respected King
6- ambition is his only motive; vile and despicable reason
“Come you spirits! That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here And fill me, from the crown to the toe, topfull Of direst cruelty!”
She is asking Dark forces to make her strong and hard hearted as a man
“Look like the innocent flower But be the serpent under it”
Be nice and gracious to Duncan but committed to his murder and secrets
Source of Macbeth?
Hollinshed’s Chronicles
Describe Macbeth?
tragedy of ambition
What is spoken in a undertone but not meant to be heard by the characters; people on stage?
Aside
What is delivered by character alone on stage; thinking aloud?
Soliloquy
Dramatic irony
when the audience knows something the characters do not
“This supernatural soliciting Cannot be ill, cannot be good”
it doesn’t seem like it can be a bad thing but it can’t be good either
- in order for him, Macbeth, to be king Duncan must die
“If chance will have me king Why chance may crown me, without my stir”
- If fate wants me to be king perhaps fate will just make it happen and i wont have to do anything
“If it were done when tis done, twere well it were done quickly”
- he wasn’t made up his mind; mental torment on whether or not to kill Duncan
