Supernatural Flashcards
What can be inferred from the following quote:
‘Fair is foul and foul is fair’
The witches state a paradox/chiasmus. The witches predict Macbeth will be king which is good but lead him to commit murder which is evil, in order to achieve his ambition to be king. Shows equivocation of witches.
What can be inferred from the following quote:
‘instruments of darkness’
. Banquo realises the witches could be evil agents of the devil and tempt Macbeth to commit sin.
This reflects James 1’s belief in witches as evil agents, described in his book ‘Daemonologie’. Shakespeare flatters his patron the king by including a subject in which he was interested.
What can be inferred from the following quote:
‘thy bones are marrowless, thy blood is cold’
The ghost is not just supernatural, it is a projection of his guilty conscience after murdering Banquo.
The ghost terrifies audience; also a warning of how murderers will be punished – dead will come back to haunt them. Which threatens people who try to commit treason i.e Gunpowder Plot.
What can be inferred from the following quote:
‘by the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes’
The witches use a rhyming couplet. The know Macbethhas become as evil as they are.
And It was believed witches could sense the approach of evil.
What can be inferred from the following quote:
‘juggling fiends’
Macbeth uses a metaphor.Macbeth realises he has been deceived by the witches as agents fo the devil and that he has damned his soul to Hell for murdering a king. Which means he has disrupted the Divine Right of Kings. Punishment from God
