Macbeth (Supernatural) Flashcards
Key points on how Shakespeare presents and use the supernatural within Macbeth?
-It underpins the characters descent into madness
-It’s shown as manipulative, disruptive of natural order, untrustworthy and a destructive force
-It encourages characters to commit acts of evil
Supernatural quote that describes the witches and how they’re a tool of evil?
‘Instruments of darkness’
Banquo Act 1 Scene 3
Supernatural quote that Lady Macbeth says to the spirits?
‘Come you spirits that tend on my mortal thoughts, unsex me here’
Lady Macbeth Act 1 Scene 5
What supernatural quotes said by the witches demonstrate their use of juxtaposition, comparative adjectives and paradox?
‘Fair is foul and foul is fair’
Act 1 Scene 1
‘Lesser than Macbeth yet greater. Not so happy yet much happier’
Act 1 Scene 3
What supernatural quote do the witches say to signal Macbeths arrival and his characters moral downfall?
‘By the prick of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes’
What supernatural quote form Macbeth highlights the unnatural effects of the supernatural?
‘Nature seems dead, and wicked dreams abuse the curtain’d sleep’
Macbeth Act 2 Scene 2
Supernatural quote that’s shows that the witches have little genuine power over man. (They can’t directly destroy the ship but can cause the storm to occur)
‘Though his bark cannot be lost, yet it shall be tempest-tossed’
Witches
What does Macbeth call the witches in Act 5 Scene 8 when he realises they have deceived him?
‘And be these juggling fiends no more believed’
Macbeth Act 5, Scene 8
What does Macbeth say when he hallucinates during his apostrophe in Act 2 Scene ?
‘Is that a dagger I see before me?’
Macbeth Act 2 Scene 2
How do the witches in Macbeth speak and why?
Trochaic Tetrameter which is different to the other characters who speak in blank verse symbolising how the supernatural defy’s the natural order
How do the other characters speak?
Blank verse or iambic pentameter
