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1
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the witches discussing when they meet again in the opening scene

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battle’s lost and won

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King Duncan asking about the captain, he is unrecognisable

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what bloody man is that

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captain describing macbeths fighting as brave

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brave macbeth

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captain describing macbeths fighting as powerful with his sword

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brandish’d steel

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captain describing macbeths fighting very gory and vivid imagery

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unseam’d him from the nave to th’chaps

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captain describing macbeths fighting he executes his enemies

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smok’d with bloody execution

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captain describing macbeths fighting Macbeth fights valourantly

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like Valour’s minion

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they are presented as equals by the captain

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Macbeth and Banquo

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Macbeth and Banquo are twice as powerful in the battle as describes by the captain

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cannons overcharg’d with double cracks

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leads to dramatic irony as he is about to be pronounced thane of cawdor

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with his former title greet macbeth

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duncan gives the title to macbeth from the traitor, reflects battle lost and won quote

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What he hath lost, noble macbeth hath won

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the witches discussing how they would torment a sailor by not allowing him to sleep

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sleep shall neither night nor day

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the witches are doing an incantation?

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peace, the charms wound up

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reflects opening and is when macbeth sees the witches

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so foul and fair a day I have not seen

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banquo describing the witches as supernatural and abnormal when they first meet them

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should be women and yet your bears forbid me to interpret that you are so

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the three witches giving the prophecies to macbeth

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all hail macbeth, hail to thee…

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banquo asking macbeth why he fears the prophecy

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why do you…fear things that do sound so fair?

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18
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banquos prophecies greater

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lesser than macbeth and greater

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banquos prophecies happier

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not so happy yet much happier

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witches describing both macbeth and banquo as equals

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so all hail macbeth and banquo—Banquo and Macbeth all hail

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banquo questions what just happened, not ready to accept

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have we eaten on the insane root?

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macbeths remark in response to banquo thinking that theyve gone mad

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your children shall be kings

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23
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this line finishes off the iambic pentatmeter of Macbeths line, showing that they are equal

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you shall be king

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macbeth thinking its wrong for him to be called thane of cawdor as he doesnt know that he has been given the title

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why do you dress me in borrow’d robes

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this an aside that macbeth says how one of the prophecies is out the way and king is next! the aside shows his inner thoughts

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the greatest is behind

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26
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talking about how one of the witches prophecies has come true

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instruments of darkness tell us truths

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Macbeth is toying with the idea of killing the king to overthrow him

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my thought, whose murder is yet but fantastical

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28
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macbeth thinks that he might potentially become king without having to murder but isnt sure what to do

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if chance will have me king, why chance may crown me without my stir

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29
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he decides that he is going to accept what will happen via fate and the rhyming couplet signifies the finality of his decision

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come what may/…(day)

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30
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the thane of cawdor had a valourant and noble death

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Nothing in his life became him like the leaving it

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31
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theme of deception as Duncan explains how he thought he could trust Cawdor but was betrayed

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he was a gentleman on whom i built an absolute trust

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32
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Duncan continues to emphasise the equality between Macbeth and Banquo

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Noble Banquo/ that has no less deserv’d

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33
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there is a pause between duncan saying this and giving an answer, almost ironic and definetly suspenseful as it would fulfil the 2nd prophecy

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We will establish our estate upon(…)

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34
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this is an aside from macbeth where he says he is now contemplating killing malcolm to become the king

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a step on which i must fall down or else o’erleap

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35
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this is an aside from macbeth where he says his deep desires are to kill Duncan/malcolm

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let not light see my black and deep desires

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36
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Lady Macbeth is critical of her husbands lack of violence, contrasts earlier message of macbeth

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Art not without ambition, but without the ilness should attend it

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37
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Macbeth is too moral at this point in the play to commit murder, he’s innocent

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too full of the milk of human kindness

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38
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ravens symbolise death

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the raven himself is hoarse

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39
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Lady Macbeth is sure Duncan will be murdered

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fatal entrance of duncan

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40
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Lady Macbeth wants to be rid of her femininity so she can commit the heinous acts

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come, you spirits…unsex me here

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41
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Lady Macbeth is hiding her heinous acts

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come, thick night

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42
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with love LM adresses MB as equals, unusual as women are typically seen as weaker

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my dearest love

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43
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Duncan will be dead tomorrow

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o never shall sun that morrow see

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44
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put up a facade of innocence; conceal your evil, theme of deception

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look like the innocent flower but be the serpent under’t

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45
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macbeth is not fully convinced by LM about killing Duncan

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we will speak further

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46
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LM is taking a lead on the murder of duncan, unusual for woman to be so powerful

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leave all the rest to me

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Duncan remarks at how well Macbeths castle is presented, dramatic irony

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in every point twice done and then done double

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48
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Duncan remarks at how LM has treated him, dramatic irony

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fair and noble hostess

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49
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LM is a “spur” to Macbeth

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and his great love, sharp as his spur

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50
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unusual for macbeth to be cut off whilst talking about ambition, he is interrupted by his wife

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vaulting ambition which overleaps itself and falls on the other—

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51
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macbeth is against the idea and is not convinced of murdering Duncan

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we will proceed no further in this business

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52
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LM questioning Macbeth’s masculinity about murdering Duncan

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when you durst do it, then you were a man

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53
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LM is far more ambitious than macbeth

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dash’d t he brains out had i so sworn

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54
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Macbeth is concerned how masculine LM has become that she could only have male offspring

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bring forth men children only

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55
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macbeth reluctantly agrees to murder Duncan after being emasculated by LM

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I am settled…to this terrible feat

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rhyming couplet signifies finality of Macbeths decision to kill Duncan

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show…know

57
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Fleance has a torch signifying how he is hte light in the darkness as the father of a lineage of kings

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torch bearer before him

58
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banquo symbolising the passing on of things from one generation to the next

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hold, take my sword

59
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symbolises how darkness has come down over Banquo, motif of light and dark

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candles are all out

60
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Banquo remarks at the comfort of Macbeth’s castle, audience perceives dramatic irony

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unusual pleasure

61
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Macbeth lies that he doesnt think about the weird sisters

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i think not of them

62
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macbeth is contemplating if the dagger is an illusions, symoblising his violence

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a dagger of the mind

63
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Macbeth toys with the idea that his stress from what he’s about to do is getting to him

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heat oppressed brain

64
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macbeth drops the idea that the dagger is real

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theres no such thing

65
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Macbeth has decided to murder duncan finally, recurring motif of blood features

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it is the bloody business which informs

66
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the aura around Macbeths castle reflects Duncans presentation through nature

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nature seems dead

67
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owl represents death

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i heard the owl scream

68
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what macbeth has done is unholy

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I could not say ‘amen’

69
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macbeth has been told that he is going to eventually be made to go mad without sleep after Duncanc;s murder

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sleep no more

70
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macbeth has been told that he is going to eventually be made to go mad without sleep after Duncanc;s murder

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Macbeth shall sleep no more

71
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Macbeth literally has blood on his hands and theres so much of it

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will all great neptunes ocean wash this blood clean from my hand?

72
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LM saying how they are both guilty but macbeth is a coward in his heart

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my hands are of your colour but i shame to wear a heart so white

73
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metaphor of beds a graves, ironic as Duncan has been murdered

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malcolm, banquo, as from your graves, rise

74
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LM is seen as innocent completely, a woman could not murder?

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o gentle lady

75
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LM plays stupid and acts oblivious to the murder

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woe, alas, what in our house

76
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Duncans death is unnatural and is not the correct course of the kingship

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breach in nature

77
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Duncan being murdered goes against nature and is unnatural

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tis unnatural

78
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Banquo is suspicious of the murder of Duncan, reflects opening prophecy

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i fear thou played’st most foully for it

79
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doesnt finish the iambic pentameter, foreshadows Banquos murder as it is ended abruptly

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forever knit

80
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Macbeth innocentlyu questions how far Banquo is going so he knows he can murder banquo

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is it far you ride?

81
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ironically Macbeth tells Banquo to come to the feast even though he is going to be murdered

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fail not our feast

82
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innocently macbeth asks whether he will be able to murder fleance too

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goes fleance with you?

83
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the final time Macbeth sees Banquo alive

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farewell.

84
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you arent anything unless it is secure

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to be thus is nothing but to be safely thus

85
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Macbeth believes he wont have a succesor of his own blood

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fruitless crown

86
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macbeth’s actions have got rid of his inner peace and he feels he needs to become safer

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put rancours in my vessel of peace

87
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Macbeth gaslights the murderers that the murder of Banquo was their idea

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Banquo was your enemy

88
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Banquos murder finality,rhyming couplet and mention of heaven

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Banquo, thy soul’s flight, If it finds heaven, must find it out tonight

89
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the past is behind

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whats done is done

90
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they havent sealed the deal, they havent solved the problem as fleance lives

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we have scorched the snake, not killed it

91
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macbeth saying how there is no point to have killed people to have peace if you dont feel it

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better be with the dead whom we, to gain our peace, have sent to peace

92
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hide what you have done

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disguising what they are

93
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Macbeth is losing his mind to stress. it is “pinching” his brain

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full of scorpions is my mind, dear wife!

94
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the murderers get rid of the hope that was banquos future

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strikes out the light

95
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Banquo knows that Macbeth has betrayed him as soon as he sees the murderers

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o treachery!

96
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banquos dying iwish is for his son to survive, very desperate

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fly good fleance, fly, fly, fly!

97
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matter of fact appearance of the theme of blood on the murderers

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Theres blood upon thy face

98
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Macbeth is hallucinating and sees banquos ghost and tells him to stop being disrespectful to macbeth

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never shake thy gory locks at me

99
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LM questioning Macbeth’s masculinity after he hallucinates Banquos ghost

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are you a man?

100
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Macbeth responds to LM that he is a man who is so awful, he’d scare the devil

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ay and a bold one…which might appal the devil

101
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LM is in disdain at her husbands supposedly feminine trait of fear at Banquo’s ghost

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quite unmanned in folly

102
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Macbeth gathers himself and repossesses his masculinity after his halkucination of Banquos ghost

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i am a man again

103
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Macbeth acknowledging that murder leads to more murder, also repetitive mention of the motif of blood

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it will have blood they say, blood will have blood

104
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LM notices macbeths illogical thought and tells him he needs sleep, references the themes of both guilt and the motif of sleep (lack of)

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you lack the season of all natures, sleep.

105
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Hecate, the greek goddess of magic and witchcraft is displeased at the witches messing with macbeth, alludes to the sailor story at the beginning

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how did you dare to trade and traffic with Macbeth

106
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repeated and signifies incantations, in trochaic tetrameter

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double, double toil and trouble, fire burn and cauldron bubble

107
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Macbeth describes the witches in the middle of the play with typical reference to the theme of dark and light

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secret, black and midnight hags

108
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witches adress macbeth extremely directly when they tell him the second l ot of prophecies and how Macduff is his downfall

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Macbeth, Macbeth, Macbeth: beware Macduff

109
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seems paradoxical as man can only be born of woman

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none of woman born shall harm Macbeth

110
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Macbeth plans to kill Macduff’s family before he runs out of anger

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This deed I’ll do before this purpose cools

111
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Macduff describes Macbeth as a tyrant

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This tyrant, whose sole name blisters our tongues

112
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Macduff talking about how he thinks that there is and always will be impertinent tyrants

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In naturre is a tyranny

113
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Macduff being extremely and plainly patriotic

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O Scotland, Scotland!

114
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Macduff describes macbeth as evil

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Devilish Macbeth

115
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Macduff being told about his wife and children despite them being dead, dramatic irony

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Why, well/Well too

116
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sibilance reflects evil, poor macduff’s whole family has been murdered

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your wife and babes savagely slaughtered

117
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malcolm tells Macduff to “man up”

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disupute it like a man

118
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macduff says how he also must mourn the loss, men also have emotions

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i must also feel it as a man

119
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let the murder fuel your fire against macbeth

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blunt not the heart, enrage it

120
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Macduff saying how he could cry and be sad but he needs to get rid of Macbeth

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I could play the woman with mine eyes

121
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Macduff describing Macbeth ass an ‘evil spirit’

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fiend of Scotland

122
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gentlewoman describing the state of LM when she was having hallucinations

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all this while in a most fast sleep

123
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Doctor observing and commentingon how it is very unusual for someone to sleep yet get none of the benefits from it, LM is going mad

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a great perturbation in nature

124
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LM wants to be rid of the blood on her hands

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out damned spot

125
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LM believes she will never be free from guilt

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will these hands never be clean

126
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LM cannot take the guilt, she believes that she will never be able to sweeten her hands

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all the perfumes of arabia will not sweeten this little hand

127
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the doctor admits that LM is beyond saving

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this disease is beyond my practice

128
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LM repeats this 3x and it symbolises her literal lack of sleep but also has a double entendre of her death

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to bed, to bed, to bed

129
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the prophecy of the woods moving is coming true as the soldiers are gathering branches

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let every soldier hew him down a bough and bear it before him

130
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Macbeth reflecting on LMs reported death with sadness and pity, exclaiming how she should have lived longer

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she should have died hereafter

131
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Macbeth is very angry on hearing that the wood is appearing to move and threatens to hang the man after this

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Liar and slave

132
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Macbeth is relieved that he will at least die with armour on his back and will go down like a man with pride, honour and valour

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At least we’ll die with harness on our back

133
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Macbeth says that he is no coward and wants to go out like a man

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Why should I play the roman fool

134
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The third prophecy is coming true as macduff wasnt born of a woman

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macduff was from his mother’s womb untimely ripped

135
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despite all the prophecies coming true, Macbeth is still keen to fight to protect his legacy and will try until he is killed

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I will try the last

136
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Young Siward’s death is glorified as it was in battle

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like a man he died

137
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further glorification of how fair the death of Young Siward was

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I would not wish them to a fairer death

138
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2 rhyming couplets signifies true finality yet also hints at the cyclic nature of the play

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grace…place…one…scone

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