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Macbeth Themes/Quotes
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- 1FATEMacbeth & Three Witches
- 21 "foul is fair, fair is foul"(Three Witches)
Equivocation, Foreshadowing
- conceals truth
- confuses responder
- speaks double truth
- foreshadows future (Macbeth's fate)
- no balance between good & evil because Macbeth holds both qualities - 32 "All hail, Macbeth! Hail to thee, Thane of Glamis! All hail, Macbeth, hail to thee, Thane of Cawdor! All hail, Macbeth, thou shalt be king hereafter"(Three Witches)
Repetition, Foreshadowing
- shows what Macbeth will become
- play on his ambition
- plant idea of murder in head
- foreshadow Macbeth's fate
- repetition highlights prestige that will be gained - 43 "stars hide your fires; let not light see my black and deep desires"(Macbeth)
Rhyme, Personification, Juxtaposition
- shows beginning of transformation
- gives into witches prophecies & his ambition
- inhabits darkness
- suggests he is taking fate into his own hands (kill Fleance) - 5GUILTMacbeth & Lady Macbeth
- 61 "but wherefore could not I pronounce "Amen"? I had most need of blessing and "Amen" stuck in my throat"(Macbeth)
Rhetorical Question
- guilty of murder
- can't pray
- can't absolve sins
- knows his wrongs
- feels guilt - 72 "you lack the seasons of all natures, sleep"(Lady Macbeth)
Metaphor, Motif of Sleep
- power, control
- no sleep due to guilt
- mind = disorientated
- insanity
- haunted - 83 "Out damned spot! Out, I say"(Lady Macbeth)
Motif of Blood, Repitition, Exclamation
- permanent mark of guilt on psyche
- forever stained
- dream/sleep-talk
- admitting to murder
- link to "Unsex me..." rid feelings of com.
- highlights great effects of murder - 94 "I am in blood. Stepp'd in so far, that, should I wade no more, returning were as tedious as go o'er"(Macbeth)
Metaphor
- seeing ghost of Banquo
- regret, guilt
- want/hope to go back but he is stuck in guilt
- can't get away - 105 "Wash your hands. Put on your nightgown. Look not so pale."(Lady Macbeth)
Metaphor
- control, power
- wash away guilt
- act innnocent
- guilt has no effect on her yet - 11AmbitionLady Macbeth & Macbeth
- 121 "Unsex me here"(Lady Macbeth)
Figurative Language
- highlights ambition
- believes can't be man enough
- wants to take charge/control
- has ambition (that Macbeth should have) to do deed - 132 "I have no spur to prick the sides of my intent, but only vaulting ambition, which o'erlaps itself and falls on the other"(Macbeth)
Metaphor, Allusion
- recognition that he is dangerously ambitious
- alludes to man jumping onto horse & missing altogether
- therefore, commitment of deed is ironic
- admits reason of regicide = ambition - 143 "that I may pour my spirits in thine ear"(Lady Macbeth)
Metaphor
- pours verbal poison/evil into ear
- encourage/manipulate
- emphasises her ambition
- control/power
- Macbeth wants but too afraid - 154 "yet I do fear thy nature; it is too full o' the milk of human kindness to catch the nearest way"(Lady Macbeth)
Metaphor, Irony
- describing initial nature of Macbeth
- before he was corrupted by ambition
- concern that his compassionate nature may blunt ambition
- stereotypical female quality of nurturing kindness (ironic) - 165 "my thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical, shakes so my single state of man"(Macbeth)
Aside, Personification
- awoken murderous ambition that's been hiding
- first thought after hearing witches prophecy = regicide
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- Year 10 English Fichas sobre Macbeth Themes/Quotes, creado por lyric.fidow el 12/08/2015.
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