macbeth quotes Flashcards
eponymous hero
shares name with title of play
unseamd him from the nave to the chops’
metaphor
shows macbeths violence and skill
treats traitor like an object
chremamorphism used to show how ruthlessly macbeth sliced man
stay you imperfect speakers…
and tell me more’
two truths are told…
as happy prologue
metaphor of cawdor title being ‘just the beginning’
waiting to fulfil ‘king hereafter’
whose horrid image…
doth unfix my hair
already thinking about murdering duncan
physiological response to unnerving thoughts
stars hide your fires…
let light not see my black and deep desires
still moral here but struggling with temptation
realises his thoughts are dark
my dearest partner of greatness
unusual for the era
sees wife as an equal rather than inferior
poisoned chalice…
to our own lips
inner turmoil
doesn’t really want to kill duncan
prithee peace
plosive alliteration
shows his desperation
LM in control
what if we fail?
seeking support/ reassurance from LM
collective pronoun ‘we’ - he views them as a team
she regains worries by mocking his fears and ridiculing him so he agrees
is this a dagger i see before me?
already losing his mind
becomes bloody as it moves towards duncan
- represents his previous goodness turning evil- corruption
but where could i not pronounce ‘amen’
religious imagery
divine RoK disrupted
traumatised by what he’s done
will all great neptune’s oceans..
wash this blood/ clean from my hand?
god of the sea
no amount of water could clean his hands
not even all the oceans in the world
rhetorical q showing state of confusion
brave macbeth…
well he deserves that name
respected by many
o’ full of scorpions…
is my mind
animal imagery
shows magnitude of his torture
‘be innocent of the knowledge…
dearest chuck’
more typical husband of the era
role reversal from earlier in the play
juxtaposes ‘my dearest parter of greatness’
make our faces…
vizzards to our hearts
mask true feelings
‘stars hide your fires’
macbeth is conscious/ nervous of others finding out what he’s done
usurped role of LM- he doesn’t need her in the same way he previously did
i am in blood
he’s murdered too many people to stop now
he needs to keep killing to secure his power
seize upon fife
macbeth acting on first prophecy
dramatic irony- audience knows macduff’s family has been murdered but macduff doesn’t
‘black macbeth…
will seem pure as snow’
colour imagery
said by malcolm
even the most evil person would seem nice compared to the sin of macbeth
‘was he not born of a woman?’
rhetorical q
macbeth is over confident
witches have greatly influenced his psyche
she shouldv’e died hereafter
loss of humanity
dissmissive attitude
his wife has lost her value to him
bought golden opinions…
from all sorts of people
colour imagery
gold connotations of wealth
duncan made macbeth feel this way
