Supernatural Flashcards

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“ Is this a dagger I see before me? “

A

Macbeth ( act 2 scene 1 ) - floating dagger but a figment of his imagination showing his fear about what is to happen

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“ Never shake thy gory locks at me “

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Macbeth - sees banquos ghost and shows how he feels guilt about killing him

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“ That look not like th’inhabitants o’ th’ earth and yet are on’t “

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Banquo ( act 1 scene 3 ) - describing the witches and says they don’t look like real humans yet they are on earth and are living

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“ double double toil and trouble. Fire burn and cauldron bubble “

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Witches ( act 4 scene 1 ) - cauldron has connotations of witches and people in the Jacobean era believed in the supernatural

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“ for none of women born shall harm Macbeth “

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Witches ( act 4 scene 1 ) - everyone is born by a woman so basically Macbeth can’t be harmed

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“ Eye of newt, toe of frog “

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Witches - graphic imagery, audience thinks there disgusting and vile

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“ Then live Macduff, what need i fear of thee? “

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Macbeth - this is a paradox + he thinks that Macduff was born by a women so he shouldn’t be afraid of him and he trusts the supernatural

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8
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Fair is foul and foul is fair

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Nothing will be seen as it is in the play

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