maccie b. Flashcards
why does Lady Macbeth fear that Macbeth wont be able to kill Duncan?
she says he is “too full of the milk of human kindness” this contrasts to the tyrant he becomes later
what is Macbeth’s first line onstage?
“so foul and fair a day I have not seen” this shows macbeth’s inner conflict and foreshadows the witches control over him
how does the captain describe Macbeths sword in battle?
“smoked with bloody excecution” - excecution suggests legal and justified killing. contrasts his later behaviour.
“stars hide your fires…..
…let not light see my black and deep desires” - conflict between light and dark imagery. also shows that macbeth knows that his ambition is wrong.
who does macbeth “unseam from the nave to the chaps”?
macdonald
what does angus tell the other men about Macbeth being a traitor? he uses textile imagery.
“now does he feel his title hang loose about him like a giants robe on a dwarfish theif”
“come you spirits…..
…that tend upon mortal thoughts, unsex me here”
what quote shows that Lady Macbeth wishes to be filled with cruelty?
“fill me from the crown to the toe top-full of direst cruelty” - this would have shocked a Jacobean audience
how are Macbeth and Lady Macbeth described by Malcom at the end of the play
“the dead butcher and his feind like queen”
what does Lady M say when Macbeth has murdered Duncan and how does she contrast this with what she says while sleepwalking?
-“a little water clears us of this deed”
-“all the perfumes of arabia will not sweeten this little hand”
what is suggested when Lady M says “the Thane of Fife had a wife, where is she now?”
Macbeth no longer confides in his wife
what is the biblical and James I reference that Lady M tells Macbeth to do when killing Duncan?
‘look like the innocent flower but be the serpent under it”
what quote at the beggining of the play shows how Macbeth sees Lady Macbeth as an equal and friend
“my dearest partner of greatness”
give a quote that shows Lady Macbeths violence
“plucked the nipple from his boneless gums and dashed the brains out”
give two quotes that talk about blood during Lady Ms sleepwalking scene
-“out damned spot”
-“‘who would have thought the old man to have so much blood in him”
give a quote that shows Lady Macbeth manipulating Macbeth by threatning his manhood
“when you durst do it, then you were a man”
what does macbeth say that directly adresses his own vaulting ambition?
“I have no spur to prick the sides of my intent, but only vaulting ambition” (words linking to horses=unpredictability, wild)(vaulting=jumping up in the natural order)
what quote from macbeth shows us his pessimistic veiwpoint near the end of the play?
“lifes but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage”
what does Banquo talk about when he delivers his Act 3 soliliquy?
he ponders that Macbeth has “plyed most foully” for the crown but that if his prophecy has come true, so might his.
what does Duncan say when he decides to give Macbeth the title of Thane of Cawdor?
“what he hath lost, noble Macbeth hath won” (mimics the contradiction of the witches)
what does macbeth say about the Prince of Cumberland?
“The Prince of Cumberland! that is a step on which I must fall down or else overleap” (again he is jumping his place in the natural order)(he sees people as barriers to his success)
what does macbeth say regarding blood after he has killed duncan?
“will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood clean from my hand” (interesting use of pagan god rather than christian god - macbeth has lost touch with god”
what does macbeth say after the murder of duncan that shows he has lost touch with god
“but wherefore could not I pronounce ‘Amen’”
what does macbeth say that is ironic about the witches?
“damned all those that trust them”
what three things do the witches say to Banquo?
-“lesser than macbeth and greater”
-“not so happy yet much happier”
-“thou shalt get kings though thou be none”
(paradoxes to show theme of duality and false faces)
how does Banquo describe the witches?
as “instruments of darkness”
what two quotes from Lady Macbeth show how she sees her feminitiy as weakness?
-“unsex me here”
-“come to my woman’s breasts and take my milk for gall”
what does Macbeth say to do with nature in his “is this a dagger that I see before me” speech?
“nature seems dead”
what does Macbeth think he hears after he has killed Duncan?
'’Sleep no more: Macbeth does murder sleep’”
what were the three impacts of Duncan’s murder on the wider world? (give quotes)
-day turns to night “the dark night strangles the travelling lamp”
-horses eat each other “tis said that they eat each other”
-owl killed a falcon “Falcon…was by a mousing owl killed”
what two things does Macbeth claim that the witches have given him?
-“fruitless crown”
-“barren septre”
give the quote about Macbeth being scared of Banquo
“our fears in Banquo stick deep, and in his royalty of nature” (he would be a good king)
what does macbeth say after he has sent the muderers to kill Banquo to lady macbeth?
“we have scorched the snake, not killed it”
give quotes from the Banquo’s ghost scene
-“thou canst not say I did it; never shake thy gory locks at me!”
-“Avaunt and quit my sight! Let the earth hide thee”
-“thy bones are marrowless thy blood is cold”
give a quote that demonstrates duplicity?
“poisoned chalice”
What does Macbeth say about “supernatural soliciting”?
“This supernatural soliciting cannot be ill cannot be good”
What does Macbeth say about one of the witches prophecies?
“I bear a charmed life, which must not yield to one of woman born”
What does Lady Macbeth ironically say about madness after Duncan’s murder?
“These deeds must not be thought after these ways; so it will make us mad”
What does Lady Macbeth say regarding “ravens”?
“The raven himself is hoarse that croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan under my battlements”
Give a quote where Macbeth peruses the witches
“Speak, if you can: what are you?”
Give a quote where macbeths asks something of the witches and is roasted
“Speak, I charge you” - Macbeth
“Listen, but speak not to it” - Witches
Give a quote where Duncan is over trusting
“He was a gentleman on whom I built an absolute trust” (previous thane of Cawdor)
