Macbeth final revision Flashcards
Gender
Macbeth’s insecurities
Malcolm and Macduff
the power of women
the witches
supernatural
fate
Lady Macbeth
fate and free will
original encounter with the witches
prophecies
soliloquies
kingship
Duncan
Macbeth
death
Malcolm
Lady Macbeth
subverts her femininity
power over her husband
harbinger of Macbeth’s downfall
appearance vs reality
witches
fueled by Lady Macbeth
Macbeth
ambition
Macbeth and Lady Macbeth
downfall and motifs
Banquo
guilt
immediately after Duncan’s death
hallucinations
Macbeth as tragic hero
supernatural
Macbeth
Banquo
Lady Macbeth
the Macduffs
paternal figure
patriotism
Lady Macduff
Macbeth’s insecurity surrounding manhood (3)
prithee peace
I had else been perfect
whole as the marble, founded as the rock
Malcolm and Macduff manhood (3)
cistern of lust
all my pretty ones? did you say all?
dispute it like a man
first I must feel it like a man
women and gender (3)
may pour spirits in ear
unsex me here
breaking his enterprise
supernatural in the opening scene (1)
when shall we three meet again?
witches and fate (2)
spins the thread of life
yet it shall be tempest lost
Lady Macbeth and the supernatural (2)
unsex me here
take my milk for gall
the witches and fate (2)
when shall we three meet again, in thunder, lightning or in rain?
so foul and fair a day I have not seen
prophecies and choice (3)
happy prologues to the swelling act
shalt be king hereafter
shall harm Macbeth
soliloquies and choice (3)
if chance will have me king why chance may crown me without my stir
bond of fate
the equivocation of the fiend
Duncan and kingship (3)
signs of nobleness like stars shall shine
I have begun to plant thee and labour to make thee full of growing
there’s no art to find the mind’s construction on the face
Macbeth and kingship (2)
those he commands move only in command
upon my head they place a fruitless crown
death and kingship (4)
some say the earth was feverous
dark night strangles the travelling lamp
strangles, entomb, living
hell-hound
Malcolm and kingship
a good and virtuous man may recoil
it weeps, it bleeds and each day a new gash
Lady Macbeth and femininity (4)
unsex me here
take my milk for gall
dash the brains out // birth strangled babe
make thick my blood…passage to remorse
Lady Macbeth emasculates Macbeth (2)
look like the innocent flower
are you a man
Lady Macbeth’s weak ending (3)
out damned spot
a little water clears us of this deed
she should have died hereafter
unseen poetry 5 questions
question tone and title language and sound patterns form and structure engaging with the theme
