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My Quotes Act 1 Flashcards

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1
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Start of the play?

Explian?

A

Stage directions “thunder and lightning”

Pathetic Fallacy forshadows evil

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Witches final line in Sceen 1?

Explian?

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“Fair is foul and foul is fair/ Hover through the fof and filthy air”

Contradiction
Forshadows that things will be foggy
Repetition of the aliterative “f” sound

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Malcom describing the captian?

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“Brave friend”

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Captian describing the traitor captian?

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“Merciless MacDonald

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Captian describing Macbeth?

And what he does?

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“For brave Macbeth - well he deserves that name”

“Bloody execution”
“Fix’d his head upon our battlements”

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Duncan describing Macbeth as worthy?

Explain

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“Valient cousin, worthy gentelmen”

Macbeth is being called worthy by the most worthy charater

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What has Macbeth gained?

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“What he hath lost noble Macbeth hath won”

“Won” suggests some sort of competition

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Biblical imagry?

Who said it?

Explain

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Captian
“Memorize another Golgotha”

Golgotha is where Jesus died
Suggests Macbeth is a God
Suggests Macbeth is the saint of Scotland

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Showing Macbeth and Banquo as equal

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“Macbeth and Banquo”

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Bodas

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“Bellona’s bridgroom”

Macbeth is like a God

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Duncan using rhyming couplets

Explain

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“Go pronounce his present death / with his formal title greet Macbeth”

Macbeth is linked with death

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End of Act 1 Sceen 2

Structure

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We haven’t met Macbeth yet hiwever we see him as a legend

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Macbeth really close link to the witches?

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“So foul and fair a day i have not seen”

Link to the start of the play”

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Banquo describing the witches?

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“You should be women and yet your beards forbid me to interpret that you are so”

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Showing how Macbeth can’t control the witches

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“Speak, I charge you” (to witches)

The witches just vanished

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Shwoing how the devil is powerful?

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“What, can the devil speak true” - Banquo

This would shock a shakespherian audience

17
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Who has the first aside?

A

Macbeth

18
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Macbeths own paradox?

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“Cannot be ill, cannot be good”

19
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Macbeths first desision on the killing of Duncan?

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“If chance will have me king, why chance may crown me without my stir”

He won’t kill him
As he is a man this is 10l% what is going to happen

20
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After Macbeths desision on wether to kill Duncan or not

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Rhyming couplet

“May/day”

21
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Semantic field if loyalty shwoing Macbeth goodness

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“Highness” “duties” “children” “love and honour”

22
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Near the end of Act 1 Sceen 4 showing how the witches have control?

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Rhyming couplets
“Fires/desires”
“Be/see”

23
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How is Lady Macbeth presented?

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Her first words are her husbands

Although she has the first and second solilique

She is described, by Macbeth, as “my dearest partner of greatness”

24
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In Lady Macbeth’s second solilique?

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“The raven himself is hoarse that croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan under our battlements”

“Come you spirits that tend in mortal thoughts, unsex me here and fill me from the crown to the tow topful of direst cruelty”

“Come to my women’s breasts and take my mikk for gaul you murdering ministors”

“Come thick night”
She wants “thick” to hide her misdeeds
The repetition of “come” 3 times in the solilique represents the 3 witches

25
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Macbeth shiws that he respects Lady Macbeth?

Explain?

A

“My dearest love”

Superlative verb

26
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Lady Macbeth about killing Duncan

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“O never shall sun that morrow see”

Sibilance

27
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Lady Macbeth link to the witches?

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“Come/masterdom”
“Clear/fear”
End ofAdt 1 Sceen 5

Both Macbeth and Lady Mcbeth are seen as evil before Act 2

28
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Duncan links Lady Macbeth to the witches?

Expalin?

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“Fair and noble hostess”

Duncan describing Lady Macbeth as “fair” links her to the witches?

29
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Macbeth describign Duncan?

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“Nacked newborn babe”

Duncn is the mist innocent person in the world

30
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Lady Macbeth shiwn as not being a proper mother and evil?

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“Pluck’d my nipple” “dash’d the brains out”

Violent imagry

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