Macbeth Key Vocab Flashcards

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Macbeth Key Themes

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Ambition, Kingship, Reality Vs Appearance, Supernatural, Good Vs Evil, Fate and freewill, Guilt, Power, Role of Women, Masculinity and Violence

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Hamartia

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The fatal flaw that leads to the downfall of a character

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Hubris

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Excessive pride or self-confidence; arrogance

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Duplicitous

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Deceitfulness in speech or conduct, as by speaking or acting in two different ways to different people concerning the same matter

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Heinious

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Of a person or a wrongful act

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Malvolent

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To have a wish of harming others

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Mercurial

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Subject to sudden or unpredictable changes of mood or mind

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Regicide

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Killing of a monarch

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