Withces Flashcards

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Whilst being the ‘instruments’ of fate, the witches’ cause chaos

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through manipulating Macbeth’s tragic flaw (‘weird’ is the Anglo-Saxon for ‘fate

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Macbeth’s hamartia – his ambition – ultimately seals

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the destiny outlined by the witches

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The witches’ reality is questioned throughout the play, as

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a means of suggesting Macbeth only has himself to blame

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The witches embody a key Jacobean debate as to whether the fate of

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the soul was predestined before birth

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why do I yield to that suggestionWhose horrid image doth unfix my hair

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And make my seated heart knock at my ribs (Macbeth)

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onlyVaulting ambition, whic

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o’erleaps itselfAnd falls on the other (Macbeth)

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As by the strength of their illusionShall draw him on to his confusion:

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He shall spurn fate, scorn death
(Hecate on Macbeth

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Till Birnam wood remove to Dunsinane,

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I cannot taint with fear (Macbeth)

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Lady Macbeth: thou wouldst be great;Art not without ambition,

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but withoutThe illness should attend it

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I am in bloodStepp’d in so far that, should I wade no more,

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Returning were as tedious as go o’er (Macbeth)

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As by the strength of their illusionShall draw him on to his

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confusion:He shall spurn fate, scorn death
(Hecate on Macbeth)

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Though Birnam Wood be come to Dunsinane,And thou opposed, being of no

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woman born,Yet I will try the last (Macbeth to Macduff

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