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Macbeth
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- 1Macbeth Character Quotes #1 “For brave Macbeth (well he deserves that name” “Noble Macbeth” A1S2 , Captain & King DuncanAdjectives
- positive connotations
- shows how great he is; better than the other fighters
- audience’s first impression: impressed
- “noble” : rise to King - 2Macbeth Character Quotes #2 “Stars, hide your fires! / Let not light seem my black and deep desires.” A1S5, MacbethMetaphor
- Macbeth’s flaw in the play: ambition
- He want to be King, and will do bad things to get it - 3Macbeth Character Quotes #3 “I fear thy nature: it is too full o’ the milk of human kindness” A1S5, Lady MacbethMetaphor
- similar to the first quote: positive trait of kindness
- juxtaposition: cowardly and a burden - 4Macbeth Character Quotes #4 “False face must hide what the false heart doth know” A1S7, MacbethRepetition of adjective
- positive: he is not usually bad
- negative: duplicitous & manipulative - 5Macbeth Character Quotes #5 “Art thou but / A dagger of the mind, a false creation” “O! Full of scorpions is my mind” A2S1, Macbeth A3S2, MacbethQuestion
- mentally unstable
- questions himself and reality
Metaphor
- poisoned mind
- can’t control his thoughts
- shocks audience: different person - 6Macbeth Character Quotes #6 “Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow / Creeps in this petty pace from day to day.” A5S5, MacbethRepetition
- can’t imagine happiness
- questions life choices
- feels pity for himself - 7Lady 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 MacbethMetaphors
- manipulative: she is the real power
- ambitious
- her cruel side
- shocks audience: reversing gender roles - 8Lady Macbeth Character Quotes #2 “Look like the innocent flower / But be the serpent under’t” A1S5, Lady MacbethMetaphor/Juxtaposition
- manipulation
- referring to herself: dupicitous - 9Lady Macbeth Character Quotes #3 “Infirm of purpose! / Give me the daggers” “Get on your nightgown” S2A3, Lady MacbethExclamation/Imperatives
- her strength: she is the mastermind
- more powerful than Macbeth
- no guilt: calm & in control
- surprise audience: power dynamic - 10Lady 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, MacduffDramatic Irony
- shows how good she is at deception
- shows how others think of her
- shocks viewers & adds tension - 11Lady 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 MacbethImperative
- 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 - 12Banquo Character Quotes #1 To witches: “To me you speak not” To Macbeth: “You shall be king” A1S3, BanquoPersonal pronouns
- envious of Macbeth
- feels overlooked - 13Banquo Character Quotes #2 “Less than Macbeth and greater” A1S3, Witch 1Paradox
- better man, though not a noble
- lineage is Kings (greater) though he won’t be King himself - 14Banquo Character Quotes #3 “My bosom franchised, and allegiance clear, I shall be counselled.” A3S1, BanquoAbstract 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 - 15Banquo Character Quotes #4 “I fear, / Thou playedst most foully for’t.” A3S1, BanquoVerbs
- soliloquy
- suspicious/distrust of how Macbeth won his titles
- astute - 16Banquo Character Quotes #5 “Fly, good FLeance, fly, fly, fly!” A3S4, BanquoImperative/Exclamation/Repetition
- selfless
- cares more about his son than himself even though he is being murdered - 17Macduff Character Quotes #1 “Most sacrilegious murder hath broke ope / The Lord’s anointed temple, and stole thence / The life o’ the building!” A2S3, MacduffExtended metaphor
- he is loyal to his King: sees him as God like - 18Macduff Character Quotes #2 “The good Macduff” “He is noble, wise, judicious.” A2S4, Rosse A4S2, RosseAdjectives
- describing him as Macbeth was once describe
- heightening his heroism
- audience believe he is the saviour - 19Macduff 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, MacduffRepetitive questions
- he is in shock: lost family
- humanises him: audience feels sympathy
- sets him up for revenge
Imagery
- feels sad and weak - 20Macduff Character Quotes #4 “Tyrant,/ show thy face” A5S7, MacduffImperative
- he has command as well
- strong, unafraid - 21Macduff Character Quotes #5 “Macduff was from his mother’s womb / Untimely ripped.” A5S8, MacduffDeclaritive/Revelation/Plot twist
- audience now ready for the downfall of Macbeth
- audience shocked
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- Flashcards that document important quotes/themes in Macbeth.
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