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“All hail Macbeth!

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King hereafter”-the witches act 1 scene 3

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“This supernatural soliciting cannot be ill;

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Cannot be good”- Macbeth act 1 scene 3

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“If chance will have me king, why,

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Chance may crown me, without my stir” -Macbeth act 1 scene 3

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“Stars, hide your fires.

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Let not light see my black and deep desires” - Macbeth act 1 scene 4

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“We will proceed

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No further in this business”- macbeth act1 scene 7

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“Is this a dagger I see before me?

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… Thou Marshall’st me the way that I was going”- Macbeth act 2 scene 1

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“For banquo’s issue have i fil’d my mind;

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for them the gracious Duncan I have murder’d”- Macbeth act 3 scene 1

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Paradigm

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A typical example of something

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Determinism

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The theory that all events, including moral choices, are determined by previous causes

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Hamartia

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Hero’s fatal flaw

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Free will

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The ability to make your own decisions

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Renaissance

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The rivival of european art and literature, old Greek and Roman classical arts discovered (e.g. Greek theatre)

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Equivocate

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Telling half truths

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Usurp

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To take a position of power (e.g. the throne) from the rightful ruler

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Treachery

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Betrayal of trust

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Hubis

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excessive pride

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Humanism

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The idea that an individual can shape their own future, opposite of fate

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Heinous

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Wrongful act, wicked

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Irresolute

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Uncertain how to act or proceed

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“Fair is foul and foul is fair:

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Hover through the fog and filthy air” - All the Witches, Act 1 Scene 1

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“Unseam’d him from the nave to the chaps and

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fix’d his head upon our battlements”- Captain, Act 1 Scene 2

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“Bloody execution” & “Carved” & “Smoked”

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Captain, Act 1 Scene 2

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“Like valour’s

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Minion”- Captain, Act 1 Scene 2

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“Worthy gentleman”-

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Duncan, Act 1 Scene 2

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“So foul and fair a day
I have not seen”- Macbeth, Act1 Scene 3
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“To win us to our harm,
The instrument of darkness”- Banquo, Act 1 Scene 3
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“To win us with honest trifles,
to betray’s in deepest consequence”- Banquo, Act 1 Scene 3
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“The service and the loyalty I owe,
In doing it, pays itself”- Macbeth TO Duncan, Act 1 Scene 4
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“Children and servants,
which do but what they should”- Macbeth to Duncan, Act 1 Scene 4
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“Safe toward your
love and honour”- Macbeth to Duncan, Act 1 Scene 4
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“A step on which i must fall down,
or else o’er leap”- Macbeth to himself, Act 1 Scene 4
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Stars hide your fires;
let light not see my black and deep desires”- Macbeth to himself, Act 1 Scene 2
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“Signs of nobleness
like stars shall shine”- Duncan, Act1 Scene 2
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“I do fear thy nature, it is too full
o’ th’ milk of human kindness”- Lady Macbeth ABOUT Macbeth, Act 1 Scene 5
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“Not without ambition but
without the illness should attend it”- Lady macbeth ABOUT macbeth, Act 1 Scene 5
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“Great Glamks,
Worthy Cawdor”- Lady Macbeth TO Macbeth, Act 1 Scene 5
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“Your face, my thane, is as a book
Where men may read strange matters”- Lady Macbeth TO Macbeth, Act 1 Scene 5
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“Look like th’ innocent flower,
But be the serpent under’t”- Lady macbeth TO Macbeth, Act 1 Scene 5
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“Unsex me here”
Lady Macbeth, Act 1 Scene 5
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“No spur to prick the sides of my intent,
But only my vaulting ambition”- Macbeth, Act 1 Scene 7
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“Theres husbandry in the heaven;
their candles are all out”- Banquo Act 2 Scene 1
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“Is this a dagger i see before me?…
Thou marshall’st me the way that i was going”- Macbeth, Act 2 Scene 1
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“Dead” & “wicked”…
“Abuse” , “murder” & “like a ghost”- Macbeth, Act 2 Scene 1
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“This is a sorry
sight”- Macbeth, Act 2 Scene 2
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“A foolish thought to say
A sorry sight”- Lady Macbeth, Act 2 Scene 2
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“I am afraid to think
What i have done”- Macbeth, Act 2 Scene 2
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“A little water
clears us of this deed”- Lady Macbeth, Act 2 Scene 2
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“Infirm of purpose?
Give me the dagger”- Lady Macbeth, Act 2 Scene 2
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“Will all neptunes ocean
wash this blood clean?”- Macbeth, Act 2 Scene 2
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“This supernatural soliciting
cannot be ill; cannot be good”- Macbeth, Act 1 Scene 3
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“If chance will have me king,why,
chance may crown me, without my stir”- Macbeth, Act 1 Scene 3
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“Both of you know Banquo
was your enemy”- Macbeth to murderers, Act 3 Scene 1
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“We have scorch’d the snake,
not killed it”- Macbeth, Act 3 Scene 2
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O full of scorpions is
my mind dear wife!”- Macbeth, Act 3 Scene 2
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“The bones are marrowless,
thy blood is cold”- Macbeth, Act 3 Scene 4
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“Thou canst not say i did it.
Never shake thy gory locks at me”- Macbeth, Act 3 Scene 4
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“Ay, and a bold one,
that dare look upon that which might appal the devil”- Macbeth to Lady Macbeth, Act 3 Scene 4
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“By the pricking of my thumbs,
something wicked this way comes”- the witches about macbeth, Act 4 Scene 1
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“All the perfumes of Arabia
will not sweeten this little hand” - Lady macbeth, Act 5 Scene 1
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“Out damned spot,
out I say!”- Lady Macbeth, Act 5 Scene 1
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“Hell is murky”
Lady Macbeth, Act 5 Scene 1
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“She should have died
hereafter”- Macbeth, Act 5 Scene 5
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“Out, out, brief candle!”
Macbeth, Act 5 Scene 5
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“Told by an idiot, full of sound
and fury, signifying nothing”- Macbeth, Act 5 Scene 5
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“Tyrant, show thy face!”
Macduff, Act 5 Scene 7
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“Macduff was from his mother’s womb
untimely ripped”- Macbeth, Act 5 Scene 8
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“Here may you see the tyrant”
Macduff, Act 5 Scene 8
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