Macbeth Act 1 Quotes Flashcards
Scene 1: along with thunder and lightning accentuate the idea of things not being as seen. Speak in rhyming couplets gives a ‘dark nursery rhyme’ or spell
‘fair is foul and foul is fair Hover through the fog and filthy air’
What do Witches speak in
trochaic tentameter to contrast with other characters
What is some context regarding witches?
Shakespeare’s Patron, King James believed in it and was punishable by death
What effect does introducing Macbeth through other people do?
Demonstrates he is a truly universally loved guy, gives greater drama to his later actions
Quotes the bloody sergeant uses to describe Macbeth
‘brave’ ‘he deserves that name’ ‘smoked with bloody execution’ gives an indication of the brutal, honour bound nature
What foreshadowing is there in Scene 2
‘what he hath lost noble Macbeth hath won’ might indicate that ambition can lead to downfall
Scene 3: Quote showing limitation of witches power
‘though his bark cannot be lost Yet it shall be tempest tost’
Scene 3: quotes from Banquo showing contrast to Macbeth’s curiosity and shock at witches
’ neither beg nor fear your favours nor your hate’
‘ why do you start, and seem to fear things that do sound so fair ‘
Scene 3: Quote shows that Macbeth has thought about killing the king before
‘whose horrid image doth unfix my hair and make my seated heart knock at my ribs’
Scene 3: Macbeth’s first words and link him to the witches
‘so foul and fair a day I have not seen’
Scene 3: Macbeth wanting to hear more of the witches
Macbeth is very keen to hear more of this ‘strange intelligence’
‘would they have stayed’
Scene 3: clothing imagery
‘Why do you dress me in borrowed robes’
Scene 3: Banquo foreshadowing Macbeths fate
‘the instruments of dark tell us truths. Win us with honest trifles, to betray us in deepest consequence’
Scene 3: time imagery
‘time and the hour run through the roughest day’
Scene 4: Dramatic Irony
Thane of Cawdor was ‘a man in whom I built an absolute trust’ and Duncan trusts his ‘peerless kinsman’
but they both betray him, shown by his hyperbolic love for Macbeth
