Macbeth quotes Flashcards
brutal rejection of her femininity
envoking power of supernatural bc in PaSoc women deprived of power by other means
“Come you spirits that tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, and fill me, from the crown to the toe, top full of direst cruelty”
“Come ————–that—- on————me here and——-me from the———of——!”
“Come you spirits that tend on mortal, usex me here, and fill me from the crown to the toe, top full of direst cruelty”
“That I———my——in————ear and——-with the———–”
“That I may pour my spirits in thine ear and chastise with the valour of my tongue”
Symbolically lady Macbeth assumes role of machiavellian villainess
“That I may por my spirits in thine ear and chastise with the valour of my tongue”
”—-is—–and—-is—-“
“Fair is foul and foul is fair”
Paradoxical in nature and summary of tale to come, one full of binary opposites, equivocation, subversion of the natural order and consequence of evil.
“Fair is foul and foul is fair”
Shows audience from the start what is right can be wrong and wrong can be right, thus blurring the line between good and evil
spoken by witches, foreshadows the havoc their powers of deceit will wreak later on
“Fair is foul and foul is fair”
”—–face———what the———know”
“False face must hide what the false heart doth know”
Close of act 1 been convinced to murder D
“mock the time with fairest show” M reiterates “mock” with “x” imperative “y”
M urging LM to go out and act the perfect hostess to their esteemed guest
bc @ critical point, must be duplicitous
“False face must hide what the false heart doth know”
Shows trust in his wife, willing for her to direct
uncanny resemblance to idiolect of wife in which she echoes the witches
alliteration of fricative “f”
“False face must hide what the false heart doth know”
”—, ——–spot; —- I —-. –,— -why then ‘——– to —–”
Out, damned spot; out, I say. One, two,—why, then ’tis time to do’t.
Pivotal moment marking degradation LM+M relationship along with mental stability
“Out, damned spot; out, I say. One, two,—why, then ’tis time to do’t.”
Contrasts position at start, powerless
“Out, damned spot; out, I say. One, two,—why, then ’tis time to do’t.”
Blank verse + iambic pentameter, strong rhythm representing strong grasp on reality, likens her to the other nobles descent into fragmented and incoherent prose>inability to think, overwhelmed by remorse. Prose aligns her to lower class characters (murderer and porter), signalling her character decay + fall down hierarchy, Sh warning novles in court of consequence of regicide, lose you are status
Gentlewoman scene in general but MOSTLY
“Out, damned spot; out, I say. One, two,—why, then ’tis time to do’t.”
“Hell is–”
“Hell is murky”
Scared of hell, opposed to earlier desire “pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell”
along with “out DAMNED spot” obsessed with idea of hell. Hell inspires terror in her. Although already damned, making suicide inconsequential, still scared of idea, aligns with Christian audiences beliefs however they would have seen it as a fitting punishment for a woman who has stepped so far out of natural order
“Hell is murky”
And her delusion that there is a bloodstain on her hand furthers the play’s use of blood as a symbol of guilt
blood has dyed her conscience
Out, damned spot; out, I say. One, two,—why, then ’tis time to do’t.
Not yet damned yet say “x” implying that she already knows that darkness intimately. The pair, in their destructive power, have created their own hell, where they are tormented by guilt and insanity
“Hell is murky”
Sh lavish use Christian imagery with infamous reference to serpent who tempted eve in eden slightly excuses M as plays on idea that he has been tempted by the inherently evil nature of women
“Look like the innocent flower but be the serpent under’t”
”—like the———-but be the ——-“
“Look like the innocent flower but be the serpent under’t”
“Yet I ———thy————of——-to——-“
“Yet I do fear thy nature, tis too full of the milk of human kindness to catch the nearest way”
Shakespeare portrays two contrasting characters between Lady Macbeth and Macbeth through the juxtaposition of Macbeth being “x” and Lady Macbeth being full of “y” – which has connotations of bitterness, suggesting she is greedy for power.
Represents LM twisted view that milk, something synonymous with nurture, love, care, nutrition and innocence, that provides strength and vital nutrition to a newborn, when possessed by a man has the opposing effect and softens/weakens them, and when possessed by her, sours into a bitter poison.
“Yet I do fear thy nature tis too full o’th milk of human kindness to catch the nearest way”
“gall”
