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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Bathos
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An anti-climax because of a change in mood
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Ditchotomy
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A contrast between two things that are being represented as very different
