Supernatural Flashcards
‘Instruments of darkness’
L: metaphor. B realises the witches could be evil agents of the devil to try and temp MB into committing sin
C: reflects James 1’s belief in witches as evil agents in his book ‘daemonologie’ Shakespeare flatters his patron by including a subject he was interested in
‘Fair is foul and foul is fair’
L: Paradox/chiasmus. The witches predict MB will be king which is good but lead him to commit murder which is evil in order to achieve his ambition to be king
‘Thy bones are marrowless, thy blood is cold’
D: the ghost is not just supernatural it is a projection of his guilty conscience after murdering B
R: ghost terrifies audience also warning of how murderers wiki be punishes - dead will haunt them
C: gun powder plot
‘By the pricking of my thumbs, something this way wicked comes’
L: rhyming couplet. They know MB has become as evil as they are
C: it was believed that witches could sense the approach of evil
‘Artificial sprites… shall draw him on in his confusion’
The witches decide to trick MB about his future to punish him
R/I: audience may feel MB deserves punishment for his evil or feel sympathy as he shouldn’t have trusted the witches
‘Juggling fiends’
L: metaphor. MB realises he has been decieved by the witches as agents of the devil and that he has damned his self to hell for murdering a king
C: Divine right of kings - punishment from God
