Quotations Flashcards
What quotes show how the fist scene is immediately established as unnerving ?
- ‘Thunder and lightning.’ [ sets an unnerving atmosphere, uninhabited, desolate ]
- ‘In thunder lightning, or in rain?’ [ stichomythia - chant, incantation to the devil, gives them strange effect ]
- ‘Fair is found and foul is fair’ [ antithesis, creates deliberate confusion through riddles ]
What quotes show character’s initial impressions of Macbeth ?
- ‘Doubtful it stood’ [ initially looked bad, at disadvantage ]
‘valour’s minion’ [ strong courageous leader ] - ‘ For brave Macbeth…’ [ shows many praise him, initial impression from Captain ]
- ‘O valiant cousin…’ [ Duncan holds Macbeth in high regard ]
- ‘ What he hath lost, noble Macbeth hath won.’ [ ‘lost and ‘won’ both used in witches speech, as if echoing their words indicating to foreshadowing, as if influenced by them ]
What quotes show Macbeth and Banquo are equal ?
- ‘ Macbeth and Banquo?’ [ introduced together, both thanes/lords in army and are equals]
What quotes show the powers of the witches ?
- ‘I’ll give thee a wind.’ [ shows witches powers, control of weather, AO3 = Jacobean audience would have believed that they could control winds ]
- ‘Ill drain him dry as hay…’ [ simile, demonstrates horrific actions witches can do ]
- ‘Macbeth doth come.’ [ shows they have prophetic foresight to some degree, proves they are real witches ]
What quotes establish Macbeth’s connection to the witches ?
- ‘So foul and fair a day I have not seen.’ [ Macbeth’s first line immediately establishes connection between himself and witches ]
What quotes show the obscure appearance of the witches ?
- ‘. not like th’inhabitants o’th’earth’ [ Banquo says the witches look unnatural, alien-like and don’t belong on earth ]
- ‘Beards forbid…’ [ not woman-like, grotesque , demonic qualities ]
What quotes show the property of the witches/ the prosthetic abilities ?
- ‘ Thane of Cawdor.’ [ prophecy, Macbeth docent know he earns that title yet ]
- ‘ Lesser than Macbeth, and greater.’ [ antithesis, purposefully ambiguous, puts into question what that could possibly mean ]
What quotes show Macbeth first becoming corrupt ?
- ‘If good, why do I yield to that suggestion?’ [ A terrible thought has arose, killing Duncan in order to become king , deliberately vague ]
What quotes the naivety of Duncan’s trust / in traitors around him ?
- ‘There’s no art/ To find the mind’s construction in the face.’ [ repentant, Duncan say she couldn’t recognise Malcom scheming. Shows naivety and irony since Macbeth is doing the same ]
- ‘O worthiest cousin,’ [ Sees Macbeth in extremely high regard ]
What quotes show Kingship/ The Divine Rights of Kings after Macbeth hears the prophecy ?
- ‘In doing it, pays itself’ [ Macbeth is humble, shows an example of The Divine Rights of Kings, reminds us of James beliefs and promotion of the idea ]
‘We will establish…’ [ Use of royal pronoun ‘we’ , speaking as ye but on behalf of God and people ]
After Duncan announces Malcom become King, what quotes show Macbeth’s desire to kill him ?
- ‘ Let not light see my black and deep desires.’ [ suggest his desires are dark, evil , immoral and does not want to show them, be exposed to god ]
What quotes show how Lady Macbeth views Macbeth ?
- ‘too full of milk o’t’milk of human kindness…’ [ milk symbolises nurture, care and motherhood, shows Lady Macbeth thinks he’d to empathetic / reader may be surprised since knows he can be equally brutal ]
What quotes show Lady Macbeth purposefully become corrupt/ go to the dark side ?
- ‘Unsex me here’ [ verb, incantation chant-like, shows she wants to be rid of her femininity and become cured instead of nurturing /caring ]
- ‘ Take my milk … Come, thick night’ [ wants to be stripped of compassion and welcomes the darkness / wants to also conceal her desires for Duncan’s death ]
What quotes show Lady Macbeth wanting to / manipulating Macbeth to kill Duncan ?
- ‘Pour my spirits in thine ear.’ [ shows she thinks she can convince him, manipulate ]
- ‘Look like t’innocent flower but be the serpent under it[ look and appear innocent but become cunning - biblical reference to serpent and Eve ]
What quotes show how manipulative Lady Macbeth is when Duncan arrives at Macbeth’s castle ?
- Done double’ [ says she’s done everything twice as well just for Duncan’s arrival, shows how manipulative and humble Lady Macbeth can be ]
What quotes show Macbeth contemplating the consequences of Duncan’s death ?
- ‘ If it were done…’ [ ambiguous pronoun ‘it’ , shows he doesn’t want to say it even to himself ]
- ‘Will plead like angels, trumpet-tounged against The deep damnation…’ [ religious imagery, shows angels will speak against his murder/ when he dies people will recognise his good virtues and cry out against it ]
What quotes show Lady Macbeth calling Macbeth cowardly to kill Duncan ?
- ‘Now to look so green and pale’ [ she says he looks sick/ uncertain and cowardly ]
- ‘When you durst do it, then you were a man.’ [ emasculating him, saying he is not a man if he doest kill the king, manipulating him ]
- ‘And dashed the brains out…’ [ says if she swore to kill her child she would, grotesque imagery, would ave horrified Jacobean audience ]
What quote shows Lady Macbeth and Macbeth’s detective appearances ?
- ‘False face must hide what the false heart doth know.’ [ themes of deception, false appearance/ act sad ]
What quotes create an eery atmosphere on the night of Duncan’s murder ?
- ‘The moon is down…’ [ indicates its dark, sets an eery and unnerving atmosphere leading up to Duncan’s death ]
What quotes show Banquo’s loyalty to Duncan ?
- ‘But still keep My bosom franchised and allegiance clear’ [ shows Banquo’s unwavering loyalty to the King ]
