prefacing quotes Flashcards
1
Q
The battlefield: thunder and lightning.
A
- pathetic fallacy
- unnatural
- tension
2
Q
WITCHES Fair is foul, and foul is fair:
Hover through the fog and filthy air. (Act 1, Sc.1, p1)
A
- book of demonology
- superstition of witches
- chiasmus of phrase, what it means
- trochaic tetrameter, links to macbeth’s moral fall
3
Q
Second Apparition
Be bloody, bold, and resolute
laugh to scorn The power of man
(Act 4, Sc.1, p65)
A
Admirable qualities. What he was praised for at the beginning.
- scorn the power of man - hubris, extension of power
4
Q
Third Apparition
Macbeth shall never vanquish’d be until
(Act 4, Sc.1, p65)
A
“Never” is stressed metrically. MB focuses on “never”, but rhyming couplets emphasise time adverb “until” foreshadows how it is inevitable.
Apparitions are in iambic pentameter rather than the witches’ trochaic tetrameter. Suggests that apparitions speak naturally/the truth.
