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Macbeth Act 4 Flashcards

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1
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  • Shakespeare’s stage directions
  • Reference to beginning of play - meeting in Thunder
  • Witches casting spell with use of cauldron
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“Thunder.” “With a cauldron.”

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  • Rhyming couplet
  • Incantation
  • Use of double in other characters demonstrates witches influence
  • Repetition
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“Double, double toil and trouble;/Fire burn, and cauldron bubble.”

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  • Characterisation of Macbeth
  • He is now wicked - witch is referring to him as wicked, so if something as evil as that is happening then it must be true??
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“Something wicked this way comes.”

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4
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  • Light and dark imagery
  • Can refer to witches as midnight hags
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“You secret, black and midnight hags!”

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  • Foreshadowing
  • Witches tricking Macbeth
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“Macbeth: beware Macduff”

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  • Blood imagery
  • Macbeth is cocky, arrogant
  • Change in character, characterisation
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“Be bloody, bold and resolute; laugh to scorn/The power of man.”

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7
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  • Witches somehow know that Macduff was born by caesarean section
  • Tricking Macbeth - their partial responsibility for his demise
  • equivocation
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“None of woman born shall harm Macbeth.”

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  • Motif of sleep
  • Innocence
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“And sleep in spite of thunder.”

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  • Rhetoric, foreshadowing, dramatic irony
  • Macbeth will kill anyone who threatens him
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“Then live, Macduff, what I need fear of thee?”

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10
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  • Security as King
  • Use of double - witches influence
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“But yet I’ll make assurance double sure.”

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  • False confidence
  • Dramatic irony
  • nature imagery
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“Shall live the lease of nature, pay his breath/to time and mortal custom.”

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12
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  • Banquo’s line of kings
  • Shakespeare’s stage directions
  • Glass symbolises a mirror, reflects the line going on forever
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“last with a glass in his hand [;/Banquo’s ghost following]”

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  • Th’crack of doom - doomsday, the thunder of the day of judgement, a Christian belief that God judges those on Earth for their deeds (held accountable)
  • Macbeth is fearful of this, and fearful of losing his power
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“What, will the line stretch out to th’crack of doom?”

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14
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  • Macbeth taking different approach
  • Turning point
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“Let this pernicious hour,/Stand aye accursèd in the calendar.”

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15
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  • Repetition of questions
  • Decline in Macbeth’s mental state - did he imagine it?
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“Saw you the weïrd sisters?”
“Came they not by you?”

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  • Changed character, acts on feelings
  • No morals, no guilt
  • No LM influence!!
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“The very firstlings of my heart shall be/The firstlings of my hand.”

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17
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  • Cool - is a binary for red hot anger
  • Not thinking actions through anymore
  • rhyming couplet
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“No boasting like a fool;/This deed I’ll do before this purpose cool.”

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18
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  • Lady Macduff vs LM
  • Bird imagery - vulnerable, no husband to protect her
  • Innocence + family
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“Will fight/Her young ones in her nest, against the owl.”

19
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  • Building dramatic tension and intensity - Macbeth is doing this
  • Don’t know what a good man Macduff is - comparison between two families
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“Liars and/swearers enough to beat the honest men and hang up them.”

20
Q
  • Not strong enough
  • Comparison between LMD + LMB
  • Innocence - good is not always rewarded - disruption of natural order
  • More innocent people killed
A

“Do I put up that womanly defence,/To say I have done no harm?”

21
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  • Son defending his father until his last breath
  • Villain = Macbeth (murderer is acting on his direction)
  • Strong, loving family
A

“Thou liest, thou shag-haired villain.”

22
Q
  • LMD is killed offstage
    Shakespeare didn’t want to show this onstage - suggests brutality - woman being killed is different?
A

“Exit [Lady Macduff] crying ‘Murder’ “

23
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  • Bleak time for Scotland
  • Metaphor, Christian affiliation
A

“New sorrows/Strike heaven on the face.”

24
Q
  • Characterisation of Macbeth
  • Sensory imagery
  • Cursed, witches
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“This tyrant, whose sole name blisters our tongues.”

25
Q
  • Dramatic irony
  • Builds dramatic tension
    Malcolm is saying to Macduff that Macbeth has not wronged him
A

“He hath not touched you yet.”

26
Q
  • Characterisation of Macbeth
  • Macbeth has been found out
A

“I am not treacherous.”
“But Macbeth is.”

27
Q
  • Allusion
  • Light and dark imagery
  • The brightest is Lucifer, who fell from God’s grace - Macbeth is Lucifer
  • Christianity
A

“Angels are bright still, though the brightest fell.”

28
Q
  • Covering true intentions behind a face
  • Malcolm understands the human condition which was Duncan’s weakness
A

“Though all things foul would wear the brows of grace,/ Yet grace must still look so.”

29
Q
  • Macduff’s family
  • Strong family values
  • symbolism
A

“Those strong knots of love.”

30
Q
  • Blood imagery
  • Macduff wants a better time for Scotland
  • personification
A

“Bleed, bleed, poor country.”

31
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  • Macbeth is a tyrant
  • Scotland is being run poorly by Macbeth
A

“For the whole space that’s in the tyrant’s grasp.”

32
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  • Personification of Scotland
  • Bloody play
A

“It weeps, it bleeds, and each new day a gash/Is added to her wounds”

33
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  • Light vs Dark imagery, binaries
  • Others may still see Macbeth as good?
    Malcolm worried no-one will believe his innocence - Malcolm says that his “vices” are far worse than Macbeth’s
A

“black Macbeth/Will seem as pure as snow.”

34
Q
  • Binary to noble Macbeth
  • Characterisation
A

“Devilish Macbeth”

35
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  • Personification of Scotland
  • How dire things are
  • Ross telling of Macbeth being a tyrant
A

“It cannot/be called our mother, but our grave”

36
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  • Bird imagery
  • Macduff’s reaction to the news of his family
  • Contrasts with Macbeth’s reaction to the death of LM
A

“O hell-kite!”
“What, all my pretty chickens and their dam/At one fell swoop?”

37
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  • Gender roles in Jacobean society
  • Malcolm encouraging Macduff to avenge his family
  • Simile
A

“Dispute it like a man.”

38
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  • Cannot be unfeeling
  • Macduff is the ideal soldier
  • Simile
A

“But I must also feel it as a man”

39
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  • Get revenge
  • Symbolism of grief
  • Let grief become anger
  • No time to grieve too much
  • Audience has admiration for Macduff
A

“Be this the whetstone of your sword.”

40
Q
  • Contrasts with beginning of play, Characterisation of Macbeth
A

“This fiend of Scotland.”

41
Q
  • Nature imagery
  • Ready to kill Macbeth
A

“Macbeth/Is ripe for shaking.”

42
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  • Gender roles
  • Men defending women
A

“This tune goes manly.”

43
Q
  • Heaven or God
  • The great chain of being
  • Power above = angels
A

“Power above/put on their instruments.”

44
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  • Dark vs Light imagery
  • Macbeth won’t wake the next day
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“The night is long that never finds the day.”

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