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” fair is foul and…

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Foul is fair” - witches (juxtaposition/ paradoxical)

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“Look like the innocent flower…

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But be the serpent undert” - lady Macbeth ( simile / metaphor)

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3
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” does murder..

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Sleep” - Macbeth ( metaphor)

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” stars , hide…

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Your fires” - Macbeth ( metaphor)

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“Unsex…

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Me here” - Lady Macbeth ( metaphor)

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“Is this a dagger…

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I see before me” - Macbeth ( alternative interpretations - metaphor)

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” out…

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Damned spot” - lady Macbeth ( metaphor)

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” life’s but a…

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Walking shadow” - Macbeth (metaphor)

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9
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” there to…

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Meet Macbeth” - witches ( dramatic convention to introduce main character)

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10
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” so foul and…

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Fair a day I have not seen” - Macbeth ( association witches - metaphor)

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“What can the…

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Devil speak true?” - banquo ( acting as foil)

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12
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” too full of the…

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Milk of human kindness” - Lady Macbeth (metaphor )

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13
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” then you were…

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A man” - lady Macbeth ( gender roles)

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14
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” leave all…

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The rest to me” - lady Macbeth ( monosyllabic and imperative language)

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15
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” to plague…

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The inventor” - Macbeth ( soliloquy)

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16
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” his virtues will plead…

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Like angels trumpet tongued”

17
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” a dagger…

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Of the mind” - Macbeth ( metaphor)

18
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” valiant cousin…

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Worthy gentleman” - Duncan

19
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” when the battles…

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Lost and won” - witches ( metaphorical)

20
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” all the perfumes of Arabia…

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Will not sweeten this little hand” - lady Macbeth ( hyperbole)

21
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” I bear a…

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Charmed life” - Macbeth ( metaphor)

22
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“My voice is…

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In my sword” Macduff ( metaphor)

23
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” take my…

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Milk for gall” - lady Macbeth ( metaphor)

24
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” brave…

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Macbeth”

25
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“you should be women…

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yet your beards forbid me to interpret that you are so” Banquo regarding witches androgynous appearance ~ suspicion

26
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“this castle hath…

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a pleasant seat” - Duncan

27
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“false face must hide…

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what the false heart doth know”

28
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  • ‘now does he feel his title hang loose…
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about him, like a giant’s robe upon a dwarfish thief” - Angus about Macbeth

29
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“yet I will…

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try the last’ - Macbeth (bravery)

30
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“dead butcher and…

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his fiend like queen”

31
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“Unseamed him from the nave to the chaos and…

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Fix’d his head upon our battlements”

32
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“Loves for his own ends…

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Not for you” - one of the witches ( metaphorical? - Shakespead hinting at if women do not fit in with the Jacobean expectations - beauty , wealth etc - they are marginalised)

33
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“Dispute it like…

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A man”- Malcolm

34
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” I shall do so but I must…

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Also feel it like a man” - Macduff

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