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Macbeth quotes
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- 1'So foul and fair a day I have not seen'Macbeth's first lines of the play echo the witches ('fair is foul and foul is fair')
Immediately establishes a connection between the witches and the play's protagonist
Shakespeare does this to signal to the reader that Macbeth is not to be trusted and will end up becoming a dark and evil character - 2'Stay, you imperfect speakers, tell me more'Macbeth is transfixed
He's desperate to know of their prophecies - 3'unfix my hair' 'make my seated heart knock against my ribs against the use of nature'Macbeth feels so scared that his hair stands on end and his heart begins to beat unnaturally fast
Adjective 'seated' suggests that before M met witches he felt calm and in control.
Now he's upsetting nature
Great Chain of Being
Divine Right - 4'Stars hide your fires'M wants to hide his evil desires from the rest of the world (and even himself)
- 5'the eye wink at the hand'M doesn't want to see what he's about to do
He's ashamed of what he plans to do - 6'undaunted mettle'M is so impressed by his wife's strength that he claims if she were to have a child it would be male due to her 'undaunted mettle'
- 7'I have no spur'M doesn't have any good reasons to kill King Duncan
His only spur is ambition
He can't deny his hunger for power - 8'vaulting ambition'FATAL FLAW- ambition
All tragic heroes have a flaw that leads to their downfall
He's getting ahead of himself and it's out of control - 9'marshall'st'M claims he's 'marshall'st' by the dagger
Implying that he isn't responsible,
a darker force is leading him - 10'o'erleaps itself and falls on th' other'M acknowledges that his ambition will lead to disaster yet he still wishes to be governed by it
Emphasises the fatal nature of M's flaw& presents him as a tragic hero
Victim of his ambition - 11'shall sleep no more'Claims a voice tells him this
He's unable to mentally rest now he's committed such an atrocity - 12'Amen stuck in my throat'He feels God and religion have abandoned him because he has sided with the darker forces
Feels too guilty to revert back to religion
Made himself an outsider and can't continue with the life he had before
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