Macbeth Act 3 Flashcards
- Banquo soliloquy
- Building dramatic tension
- Suspects Macbeth because of witches predictions
“Thou played’st most foully for’t”
Fate, Macbeth is trying to control his own destiny
let every…
“Let every man be master of his time”
- Seemingly wishing Banquo and Fleance well, irony
- Not being a good Christian
- hiding behind face
“God be with you”
- Soliloquy, Macbeth’s justification of why Banquo will be killed
- Losing grip on what is reasonable
“To be thus is nothing,/but to be safely thus.”
- No heirs
- Witches’ influence
- Personification of crown?
“Upon my head they placed a fruitless crown”
- Proverb
- LM still is resolute, strong
“what’s done, is done.”
- Nature imagery
- Snake = satan?
- Macbeth is not satisfied with power
“We have scorched the snake, not killed it.”
- Murdering King to be King won’t make you happy
- Macbeth is envious that Duncan is at peace and free of mental torture
- Alliteration, sleep motif
“After life’s fitful fever, he sleeps well”
- Face masks feelings of heart
- Foul and fair
“And make our faces vizards to our hearts”
- Psychological decline
- Imagery
- Metaphor
“Full of scorpions is my mind, dear wife!”
- Shift in husband and wife dynamic
- Keeping secrets from wife
- Difference in Macbeth’s character - stronger and more resolute
“Be innocent of the knowledge, dearest chuck”
- Light and dark imagery
- Darkness covers bad deeds
“Come, seeling night,/Scarf up the tender eye of pitiful day”
- Light and dark imagery
- Shakespeare’s stage directions
- Bad things happen in darkness
- Darkness = evil
“First Murderer strikes out the light”
- Alliteration
- Paranoia
- Macbeth upset that Fleance got away
“Cabined, cribbed, confined”
- Witches prophecy coming true
- Banquo is referred to as serpent - dramatic irony as snakes are related to Satan but Banquo was a good person
“There the grown serpent lies; the worm that’s fled/Hath nature that in time will venom breed”
- Dramatic irony
- Macbeth is keeping up appearances
- I hope he’s not out of unkindness rather than an accident
“Who may I rather challenge for unkindness/Than pity for mischance”
- Shakespeare’s stage directions
- Rift between husband and wife
- Characterisation of Lady Macbeth - still strong and able to keep up appearances
“Lady Macbeth joins the Lords”
- Rhetoric
- Macbeth’s mind is weakened
- Play does not endorse regicide
“Are you a man?”
- Visual imagery
- Macbeth is this time not aware that Banquo’s ghost is not real
- LM telling him it isn’t real
“The air-drawn dagger which you said/Led you to Duncan”
“The very painting of your fear”
- Rhetoric
- Speaking to an empty chair
- Psychological decline
“Why, what care I? If thou canst nod, speak too.”
- Confession
- Visual imagery
- Knows what he’s done is wrong
- Guilt
“Murders have been performed/Too terrible for the ear.”
“The brains were out, the man would die.”
- Tragic irony
- Macbeth trying to keep up appearances
“And to our dear friend Banquo, whom we miss.”
- No life, go away
- You should be buried
- Nature imagery
“Let the earth hide thee!/Thy bones are marrowless, thy blood is cold.”
- Not masculine to show fear
- To be strong and to be a good host is to be a man
“Why so, being gone,/I am a man again.”
