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Macbeth
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- 1Act 1 SummaryThe witches meet Macbeth and Banquo.
Macbeth is made the Thane of Cawdor.
Macbeth plots to kill King Duncan.
Lady Macbeth convinces Macbeth to murder King Duncan. - 2Act 2 SummaryMacbeth sees a floating dagger – ‘is this a dagger I see before me?’
Macbeth murders King Duncan.
Lady Macbeth smears blood on the guards.
Macduff discovers Duncan's body. - 3Act 3 SummaryMacbeth orders the death of Banquo.
Banquo is murdered however, Fleance escapes. - 4Act 4 SummaryMacbeth goes back to the witches
- 5Act 5 SummaryMacduff kills Macbeth
- 6The WitchesKey Quotes:
'When the battle's lost and won'
'fair is foul, and foul is fair'
'sleep shall neither night nor day'
'something wicked this way comes'
Techniques:
Trochaic tetrameter
Rhyming couplets
Paradoxical lines
Macbeth's relation is ominous (warning sign)
Equivocation - ambiguous - 7Macbeth Techniques: He's juxtaposed with different characters to show his flaws. He's a tragic hero whose tragic flaw is his 'vaulting ambition'. Context: Deterrence to others who want to commit sacrilege (gunpowder plot). Extra: Macbeth's themes are kingship, supernatural, good v evil, honor v manhood, appearance v reality, deceit/equivocation, ambition.The motif of blood and sleep are repeated throughout Macbeth. Macbeth is said to be 'brave' and 'valiant cousin' but is actually cautious and morally aware. His decent is emphasized through his high position to his descent into madness.
- 8Macbeth Key Quotes: 'Speak I charge you' (witches vanish) '(aside) stars hide you fires let not light see my black and deep desire' 'bloody instructions...plague th' inventor' 'I have no spur...but only vaulting ambition' 'false face must hide what the false face doth know' 'Hear it not Duncan for it is a knell that summons thee to heaven or to hell' 'blessing and Amen stuck in my throat''sleep no more Macbeth doth murder sleep. The innocent sleep, sleep that kits up the ravelled sleeve of care'
'I am afraid to think what I have done'
'Will all great Neptune's ocean, wash this blood clean from my hand?...multitudinous seas incarnadine'
'fruitless crowns'
'we have scorched the snake, not killed it'
'O, full of scorpions in my mind, dear wife'
'Be innocent of the knowledge, dearest chuck till thou appaud the deed' - 9----
- 10Lady Macbeth Key Quotes: 'My dearest partner of greatest' 'It is too full o'th' milk of human kindness' 'but without the illness should attend it' 'unsex me here...fill me...direst cruelty' 'take my milk for gall' 'Come thick night and pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell that my keen knife see not the wound it makes' 'look like th' innocent flower but be the serpent under't' 'plucked the nipple from his boneless gums and dash'd the brains out''had he not resembled my father as he slept I had done't'
'Infirm of purpose. Give me the daggers'
'My hands are of your colour but I shame to wear a heart so white'
'A little water clears us of this deed'
'My royal lord you do not give me cheer'
'Are you a man?'
'shame itself'...you look but on a stool'
'You lack the season of all natures, sleep!' - 11Lady Macbeth 'Out, damned spot' 'What will these hands ne'er be clean' 'Here's the smell of the blood still; all the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand' Techniques: Proleptic line - more important later on Has lots of soliloquies to show dominance Speaks in iambic pentameter but prose when she goes crazy.Context:
She's associated with witches and supernatural.
Juxtaposed typical Jacobean women, shows some signs of human/femininity.
Extra:
She's Macbeth's 'spur', shows signs of weakness throughout. 'nought's had, all's spent' and 'by destruction dwell in doubtful joy' - 12Banquo Key Quotes: 'He seems rapt' 'What can the devil speak true?' 'to win us our harm the instruments of darkness tell us truths' 'Thou playd'st most foully fort't' Techniques: Contrast between Macbeth and Banquo to show witches' weakness.Context:
Banquo is descendant of King James so needs to positively shown. He shows that Macbeth's actions are freewill not fate by carving him out as a tragic hero.
Extra:
He represents themes of good v evil, honor v manhood, kingship and bravery. - 13Macduff and Malcolm Key Quotes: 'O horror, horror' 'Most sacrilegious murder; 'Of horrid hell can come a devil more damned' 'untimely ripped' 'The time is free' 'This tyrant, whose sole name blisters our tongue' 'Our country...it weeps, it bleeds, and each day a new gash'Macduff - Macbeth's nemesis and the one to kill Macbeth. He's associated with equivocation, good v evil, loyalty v treachery and manhood.
Malcolm - Contrasts Macbeth as a leader. Harmony is reestablished when he's king. He's associated with good v evil, kingship, harmony v chaos. - 14Duncan Key Quotes: 'noble Macbeth' 'noble Banquo' 'valiant cousin' 'we love him highly' 'worthy gentlemen' 'There's no one to find the minds con..? in the face...whom I build on absolute trust' 'His silver skin bled with his golden blood'Techniques:
Prophetic irony - character says something that's more significant than it appears to be.
Context:
Wanted to please King James and show that he is a good king. Duncan's only flaw is that he's too trusting.
Extra:
He's associated with kingship, appearance v reality, good v evil. Loosely linked to blood motif too. - 15Form: Senecan Tragedy Used a lot with renaissance playwrights feature include: focus on 'scelus' (crime) supernatural ambition as a trait peripeteia (reversal) harmartia (tragic flaw) anagnons (tragic recognition)Themes:
Kingship -
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- GCSE English Literature Karteikarten am Macbeth, erstellt von Caitlin Mulhall am 18/02/2020.
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