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Flashcards by Amy Daniels, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Amy Daniels
about 5 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| Macbeth Character Quotes #1 “For brave Macbeth (well he deserves that name” “Noble Macbeth” A1S2 , Captain & King Duncan | Adjectives - positive connotations - shows how great he is; better than the other fighters - audience’s first impression: impressed - “noble” : rise to King |
| Macbeth Character Quotes #2 “Stars, hide your fires! / Let not light seem my black and deep desires.” A1S5, Macbeth | Metaphor - Macbeth’s flaw in the play: ambition - He want to be King, and will do bad things to get it |
| Macbeth Character Quotes #3 “I fear thy nature: it is too full o’ the milk of human kindness” A1S5, Lady Macbeth | Metaphor - similar to the first quote: positive trait of kindness - juxtaposition: cowardly and a burden |
| Macbeth Character Quotes #4 “False face must hide what the false heart doth know” A1S7, Macbeth | Repetition of adjective - positive: he is not usually bad - negative: duplicitous & manipulative |
| Macbeth Character Quotes #5 “Art thou but / A dagger of the mind, a false creation” “O! Full of scorpions is my mind” A2S1, Macbeth A3S2, Macbeth | Question - mentally unstable - questions himself and reality Metaphor - poisoned mind - can’t control his thoughts - shocks audience: different person |
| Macbeth Character Quotes #6 “Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow / Creeps in this petty pace from day to day.” A5S5, Macbeth | Repetition - can’t imagine happiness - questions life choices - feels pity for himself |
| Lady Macbeth Character Quotes #1 “Hie ether hither, / That I may pour my spirits in thine ear” “Unsex me hear, / And fill me, from the crown to the toe, top-full / Of direst cruelty!” A1S5, Lady Macbeth | Metaphors - manipulative: she is the real power - ambitious - her cruel side - shocks audience: reversing gender roles |
| Lady Macbeth Character Quotes #2 “Look like the innocent flower / But be the serpent under’t” A1S5, Lady Macbeth | Metaphor/Juxtaposition - manipulation - referring to herself: dupicitous |
| Lady Macbeth Character Quotes #3 “Infirm of purpose! / Give me the daggers” “Get on your nightgown” S2A3, Lady Macbeth | Exclamation/Imperatives - her strength: she is the mastermind - more powerful than Macbeth - no guilt: calm & in control - surprise audience: power dynamic |
| Lady Macbeth Character Quotes #4 “O gentle lady, / ‘T is for you to hear what I can speak: / The repetition, in a woman’s ear, / Would murdur as it fell.” A2S3, Macduff | Dramatic Irony - shows how good she is at deception - shows how others think of her - shocks viewers & adds tension |
| Lady Macbeth Character Quotes #5 “OUt, damned spot! Out, I say!” “Yet who would have thought the / old man to have had so much blood in him?” A5S1, Lady Macbeth | Imperative - going mad/losing her mind - guilt and horror (blood) - no control: repeats lines from A2S3 but ranting - doesn’t want to get caught Rhetorical question - contrasts Act 2 where just washing hands would make it all go away |
| Banquo Character Quotes #1 To witches: “To me you speak not” To Macbeth: “You shall be king” A1S3, Banquo | Personal pronouns - envious of Macbeth - feels overlooked |
| Banquo Character Quotes #2 “Less than Macbeth and greater” A1S3, Witch 1 | Paradox - better man, though not a noble - lineage is Kings (greater) though he won’t be King himself |
| Banquo Character Quotes #3 “My bosom franchised, and allegiance clear, I shall be counselled.” A3S1, Banquo | Abstract noun -strong loyalty & morality (to King) - knows his friend well: plots - foil to Macbeth: juxtaposition which heightens Macbeth’s villainy - Banquo is King Jame’s ancestor: sucking up to boss |
| Banquo Character Quotes #4 “I fear, / Thou playedst most foully for’t.” A3S1, Banquo | Verbs - soliloquy - suspicious/distrust of how Macbeth won his titles - astute |
| Banquo Character Quotes #5 “Fly, good FLeance, fly, fly, fly!” A3S4, Banquo | Imperative/Exclamation/Repetition - selfless - cares more about his son than himself even though he is being murdered |
| Macduff Character Quotes #1 “Most sacrilegious murder hath broke ope / The Lord’s anointed temple, and stole thence / The life o’ the building!” A2S3, Macduff | Extended metaphor - he is loyal to his King: sees him as God like |
| Macduff Character Quotes #2 “The good Macduff” “He is noble, wise, judicious.” A2S4, Rosse A4S2, Rosse | Adjectives - describing him as Macbeth was once describe - heightening his heroism - audience believe he is the saviour |
| Macduff Character Quotes #3 “My children too?” / “My wife too?” “All my pretty ones? / DId you say all?” “I must also feel it as a man...I could play the woman with mine eyes.” A4S3, Macduff | Repetitive questions - he is in shock: lost family - humanises him: audience feels sympathy - sets him up for revenge Imagery - feels sad and weak |
| Macduff Character Quotes #4 “Tyrant,/ show thy face” A5S7, Macduff | Imperative - he has command as well - strong, unafraid |
| Macduff Character Quotes #5 “Macduff was from his mother’s womb / Untimely ripped.” A5S8, Macduff | Declaritive/Revelation/Plot twist - audience now ready for the downfall of Macbeth - audience shocked |
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