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Scholarly Article and Macbeth Notes Flashcards

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(scholarly article) Macbeth was made out of … for King James

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gratefulness

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(scholarly article) Macbeth is based on …. as the King traced his line back to …

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Scottish history; Banquo

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(scholarly article) Shakespeare’s main scholarly source:

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Chronicles of England, Scotland, and Ireland by Raphael Holinshed

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(scholarly article) real life: … helps Macbeth kill the king

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Banquo

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(scholarly article) in his play, Shakespeare intensifies Maceth’s

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isolation and evil

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(scholarly article) real life: Duncan is … and … and Macbeth reigns … for … years
play: Duncan is … and … and Macbeth is a …

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young; feeble; brilliantly; 10; mature; virtuous; tyrant

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(scholarly article) equivocator in Macbeth is an allusion to ….who was part of the …

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Father Henry Garnet; Gunpowder Plot

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(scholarly article) King James believed that a king was a …. As such, regicide was the …

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sacred figure, chosen by God; ultimate crime

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(scholarly article) King James suspected the hand of the … in any plot to …. Also believed that … conspired to harm him at certain points in his life

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devil; murder a king; witches

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(scholarly article) Macbeth is fully aware of the …. of his deeds and is …. by his awareness

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wickedness; tormented

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(scholarly article) Macbeth and Lady Macbeth act on …, restless …, and a will to ….normally kept in check by the pragmatic, ethical, and religious considerations to which the wavering macbeth initially gives voice

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ambition; desire; power

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(scholarly article) at the time Shakespeare wrote Macbeth, authorities in England and Scotland were bringing women to trial on charges of

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witchcraft and executing the

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(scholarly article) In Macbeth, the ambiguities of demonic agency are

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never resolved

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(Act 1) Captain recounts that it wasn’t clear who would

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win the battle

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(Act 1) Rebel:

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Macdonald

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(Act 1) witches state “And thrice again to make up nine”→ nine is reference to

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Lucifer

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(Act 1) Thane of Cawdor is …. He … and asked …

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dead; confessed; forgiveness

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(Act 1) King Duncan on Thane’s betrayal: you can’t tell what someone thinks by

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looking at him

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(Act 1) King is grateful to …, who acts …

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Macbeth; humble

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(Act 1) Banquo gets some

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acknowledgement

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(Act 1) …. is an obstacle for Macbeth as he is to be the next king

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Malcolm

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(Act 1) Lady macbeth doubts that her husband will

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do what it takes to be king

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(Act 1) Lady macbeth has no desire for goodness to reside within her, she seeks to

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kill Duncan

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(Act 1) Lady Macbeth possibly invokes a …: …

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curse; malediction

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(Act 1) Lady macbeth tells her husband to be … and alludes to ….

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fake; murdering the king

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(Act 1) King Duncan’s discussion of how Macbeth’s castle is a wonderful place illustrates use of

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dramatic irony

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(Act 1) Macbeth struggles in his plan, as he remembers that Duncan is a …. and there is a potential …

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good king; backlash

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(Act 1) Macbeth worries of the people’s

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reactions

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(Act 1) Macbeth’s wife begins to challenge his …. Macbeth doesn’t want to lose his …

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masculinity; humanity

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(Act 1) Lady Macbeth develops the plan: make guards …, … them

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drunk; frame

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(Act 2) Macbeth wants to speak with Banquo. Banquo is willing to comply as long as he remains ..

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guiltless

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(Act 2) Macbeth sees a dagger: …, sense of … through vision

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hallucination; guilt

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(Act 2) Macbeth’s doubt gives way to …

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resolve

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(Act 2) Macbeth heard … during murder

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voices

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(Act 2) suppressing …: Lady Macbeth says that they can’t … on the murder, because the .. will make them go insane

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consciences; dwell; guilt

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(Act 2) Lady macbeth goes to plant the evidence as macbeth is not

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strong enough

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(Act 2) gatekeeper:

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comic relief

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(Act 2) nature reflects distress of king’s murder: use of

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pathetic fallacy

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(Act 2) Macbeth killed the

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guards

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(Act 2) Banquo is a voice of …, suggests to reconvene to discover more

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reason

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(Act 2) Malcolm thinks the murderer might be …, he and Donalbain …

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amongst them; flee

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(Act 2) Macbeth’s kingdom built in …

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chaos

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(Act 3) Banquo worries that Macbeth

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murdered Duncan

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(Act 3) King’s sons being blamed. Macbeth begins to worry about

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Banquo

45
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(Act 3) Macbeth hires murderers to

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kill Banquo & Fleance

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(Act 3) Lady macbeth says that it is safer to be … than to be …

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dead; living as they are

47
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(Act 3) Macbeth is having

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nightmares

48
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(Act 3) At party, Macbeth says that it is better for Banquo to be … than … as Banquo is absent

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rude; dead

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(Act 3) In Act 6, Lennox is being ….

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sarcastic

50
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(Act 3) Lennox says that Macbeth never showed love to Duncan before he

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died

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(Act 4) Macbeth visits the witches. 1st apparition tells Macbeth to be wary of …, 2nd apparition tells Macbeth that no man …. will harm him, 3rd apparition tells Macbeth that he will be destroyed when … comes to …

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Macduff; born of woman; Birnam Wood; Dunsinane

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(Act 4) Macbeth sees that Banquo’s line will rule for a long time; … kings

A

8

53
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(Act 4) Seeing that Banquo’s line will rule, Macbeth becomes … and calls the hour …

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angry; cursed

54
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(Act 4) Macduff’s family is …

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murdered

55
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(Act 4) Macduff and Malcolm plan a

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rebellion

56
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(Act 5) Lady Macbeth is …, confesses her crimes

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sleepwalking

57
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(Act 5) Macbeth is overly …. Malcolm and his army camoflauge themselves with …

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confident; branches

58
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(Act 5) Lady Macbeth ….

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commits suicide

59
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(Act 5) Macduff born by …, kills …, … becomes king

A

c-section; Macbeth; Malcolm

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