Macbeth - Overall Flashcards
Shows that Macbeth is bravery’s favourite (Act 1 Scene 2)
Valour’s minion
Shows Macbeth to be the husband of war (Act 1 Scene 2)
Bellona’s bridegroom
Shows Banquo thinks the witches are evil (Act 1 Scene 3)
What! Can the devil speak true?
Shows Macbeth is keen to hear what the witches have to say (Act 1 Scene 3)
Would they had stayed!
Shakespeare uses dramatic irony about Macbeth’s impending regicide (Act 1 Scene 4)
There’s no art / To find the mind’s construction in the face
Contrasting description Macbeth’s castle, the scene of murder (Act 1 Scene 6)
Loved maisonry
Manipulative Lady Macbeth lies easily to Duncan while planning his murder (Act 1 Scene 6)
Honours deep and broad wherewith / Your majesty loads our house
Macbeth alludes to his wife being more masculine than him (Act 1 Scene 7)
undaunted mettle should compose / Nothing but males
Banquo senses darkness - evil (Act 2 Scene 1)
Candles are all out
Banquo suggests darkness - evil - in the air has a physical effect on him (Act 2 Scene 1)
A heavy summons lies like lead upon me
Macbeth sees a dagger and is unsure as whether it is real or not. Because he has become evil he can see things others can’t. (Act 2 Scene 1)
false creation / proceeding from the heat oppressèd brain
Macbeth asks if “Will all Great Neptune’s oceans [wash away the guilt] then uses more sophisticated vocabulary to cloud his actions (Act 2 Scene 2)
Multitudinous seas incarnadine
Porter implies that the killing of Duncan has cast the world into a dark, hellish, underworld. (Act 2 Scene 3)
Hell-gate
Porter implies that the killing of Duncan has made the natural world go mental all night (Act 2 Scene 3)
strange screams of death
The old man uses a metaphor to describe the killing of Duncan (Act 2 Scene 4)
Falcon towering in her pride of place / Was by a mousing owl hawked at and killed
Macbeth shows his contempt for the murderers by replying to the murderers speech about loyalty ironically (Act 3 Scene 1)
Your spirits shine through you
Macbeth recognises his evil ways and how they bring about death (Act 3 Scene 2)
O, full of scorpions my mind is
The murderers show the audience the effect of killing Banquo (Act 3 Scene 3)
Before Banquo is killed,
First Murderer: “The West yet still glimmers with some streaks of light”
After Banquo is killed,
Third Murderer:”Who did strike out the light?”
Although Macbeth is terrified by Banquo’s apparition at the feast he appears casual about the event afterwards (Act 3 Scene 4)
We are yet but hound in the deed
Macbeth indicates how important the monarchy is to his wife (Act 3 Scene 4)
Our hostess keeps her state
Hecate foreshadows Macbeth’s downfall (Act 3 Scene 5)
A dismal and a fatal end
Hecate links Macbeth to her, being evil (Act 3 Scene 5)
Wayward son
Macduff is wary, suspicious, of Macbeth (Act 2 Scene 3)
Wherefore did you so
The witches describe Macbeth badly (Act 4 Scene 1)
Something wicked
Macbeth shows how his whole life is falling apart (Act 4 Scene 3)
All my pretty chickens / and their dam, at one fell swoop
Lady Macbeth shows how guilty she is (Act 5 Scene 1)
Whats done cannot be undone
Angus says Macbeth is not worthy of the crown (Act 5 Scene 2)
Does feel his title / hang loose about him like a giant’s robe / Upon a dwarfish thief
Macbeth notices how Scotland is in danger (Act 5 Scene 4)
Disease
Macbeth recognises that he could have had a different life (Act 5 Scene 4)
Troops of friends
Macbeth does not care if he lives or dies (Act 5 Scene 5)
I ‘gin to be aweary of the sun
Macbeth doesn’t give up (Act 5 Scene 6)
Yet I will try the last
Macbeth foreshadows his betrayal (Act 1 Scene 7)
We but teach / Bloody instructions, which, being taught, return / To plague the inventor
Why is Macbeth written mostly in iambic pentameter?
Most important words are stressed, giving them greater prominence
Why is prose used?
The switch from blank verse signifies a change in tone from seriousness to humour
