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Macbeth flashcards
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- 1"Unseamed him from knave to chaps" - CaptainThis is Macbeth ‘unseaming’ the rebel Macdonwald. This foreshadows Macbeth’s own ‘unseaming’ by Macduff. It is also a clothing metaphor suggesting Macdonwald is being stripped of his title due to his traitorous actions, like Macbeth is later.
- 2"Why do you dress me in borrowed robes?" - MacbethMacbeth asks this when he is deemed Thane of Cawdor. This suggests his suspicion that there may be trickery at play. It also indicates that this title is not rightly his, it is ‘borrowed.’
- 3""Unsex me here" - Lady MacbethContext - Sexism - She wants to do something, but contextually, she is unable to do it as she is a woman. Linked to Queen Elizabeth I who was friends with Shakespeare.
- 4"Is this a dagger I see before me The handle toward me hand? Come, let me clutch thee" - MacbethThe dagger is a visual representation leading Macbeth to the murder of Duncan and foreshadows bloodier visions to come. The feminine iambic pentameter suggests uncertainty and weakness which diminishes as the soliloquy progresses.
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- Year 11 English Flashcards on Macbeth flashcards, created by Nathan Wilson on 03/03/2019.
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