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Macbeth
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- 1WitchesKey Quotes
'When the battle's lost and won'
'fair is foul, and foul is far'
'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 - 2Lady MacbethLady Macbeth
- 3Key Quotes 'My dearest partner of greatest' 'It is too full o'th' milk of human kindness' 'but without the illness should attend it' 'fatal entrance... under my battlements' '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' - 4'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 woman, shows some sings 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' - 5BanquoBanquo
- 6Key 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 for't' Techniques Contrast between Macbeth and Banquo to show witches' weakness.Context
Banquo is a descendent of King James so needs to positively be 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, honour v manhood, kingship and bravery. - 7Macduff and MalcolmMacduff and Malcolm
- 8Key Quotes 'O horror, 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 teachery and manhood'
Malcolm - Contrasts Macbeth as a leader. Harmony is restablished when he's king. He's associated with good v evil, kingship, harmony v chaos. - 9DuncanDuncan
- 10Key Quotes 'noble Macbeth' 'noble Banquo' 'valiant cousin' 'we love him highly' 'worthy gentlemen' 'There's no one to find the mind's con.? in the face... whom I build on absolute trust' 'His silver skin bled with his golden blood' Techniques Probeptic irony - character says something that's more significant than it appears to beContext
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. - 11Form Senecan Tragedy Used a lot with renaissance playwrights features include: focus on 'scelus' (crime) supernatural ambition as a trait peripeteia (reversal) harmartia (tragic flaw) anagnons (tragic recognition)Themes
Kingship - The play is about the replacement of a good king with a bad one. Shows the effects of damaging the divine right/ great chain.
Manhood - LMB often questions Macbeth on his masculinity. Macduff contrasts Macbeth.
Appearance v reality - The witches lead Macbeth to his damnation. The play shows how people are two-faced and lie.
Guilt - A reoccurring motif of blood and sleep shows effects of regicible - 12MacbethMacbeth
- 13Techniques 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 other's who want to commit sacrilege (gunpowder plot) Extra Macbeth's themes are kingship, supernatural, good v evil, honour v manhood, appearance v reality, deceit/equivocation, ambition.The motif of blood and sleep are repeated through Macbeth. Macbeth is said to be 'brave' and 'valiant cousin' but is actually cautious and morally aware. His decent is emphasised through his high position to his descent into madness.
- 14Key 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 knits 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 is my mind, dear wife'
'Be innocent of the knowledge, dearest chuck till thou appaud the deed' - 15Quotes 'come feeling night' 'It will have blood they say: blood will have blood' 'I am in blood stepper in so far...returning were as tedius a go' oer' 'we are yet but young in deed' 'Our castle's strength will laugh a seige to scorn' 'I have almost forgotten the taste of fears' 'I have supped full with horrors''Out, Our brief candle light'
'Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury signifying nothing'
'They have tied me to a snake; i cannot fly but near like I must fight the course'
'my soul is too my charg'd with blood of thine already'
'I will not yield to kiss the ground before young Malcolm's feet and to be baited with the rabbles curse'
Techniques
In his soliloquies he shows his true feelings, he speaks in iambic pentameter but sometimes uses heroic couplets. - 16Act One Plot SummaryThe witches appear and agree to meet again on the heath before sunset, where they say they can find Macbeth.
Macbeth has subdued a rebellion and an invasion of Scotland by Norwegian troops. On the way back from the battle, accompanied by his fellow commander Banquo, he meets three witches. They tell Macbeth that he will be Thane of Cawdor, then the Thane of Glamis and finally the king.
King Duncan arrives as a guest at Macbeth's castle. Lady Macbeth suggests that Macbeth kill the king in order to gain the throne. - 17Act Two Plot SummaryAlthough nagged by doubts, Macbeth murders the king and his sleeping guards are smeared with blood. Suspicion falls on the guards but the king's son, Malcolm is suspicion and flees to England.
Macduff is equally suspicious, and hearing that Macbeth is to be crowned king, returns to his Castle at Fife. - 18Act Three Plot SummaryTime has passed and Macbeth's court is uneasy. Macbeth fears Banquo, that his descendants will inherit the crown.
Macbeth hires murderers to murder Banquo, but that night he is haunted by Banquo's ghost, which completely unnerves him. However, he cannot undo his deeds, he can only go on. - 19Act Four Plot SummaryMacbeth seeks out the witches to tell him he is unconquerable, but that Banquo's heir will, indeed, sit on the throne.
Macbeth is horrified to hear that Macduff has gone to England and has his family murdered. When Macduff hears of this it confirms his plan to join Malcolm, and the army which he has raised in England, to return to Scotland and kill Macbeth. - 20Act Five Plot SummaryMalcolm and Macduff meet all the leading nobleman who have defected from Macbeth.
Macbeth receives the news that his wife, who has become demented with guilt is dead. His castle is easily taken as more and more of his men desert.
Macbeth is desperate but still thinks he can't be killed. However the witches have tricked him, he can by Macduff.
Macbeth goes onto his last battle like the fearless soldier of the first act; but Macduff kills him, and Malcolm becomes the new King of Scotland.
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- English Literature Karteikarten am Macbeth, erstellt von Caitlin Mulhall am 23/07/2019.
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