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Macbeth MOCKS
Cards in this deck (35)
- 1Everyone thought that Duncan was a good King."Thy royal father was a most sainted king."
"this Duncan - Hath borne his faculties so meek, hath been - So clear in his great office."
"His virtues will plead like angel, trumpet tongued against the deep damnation of his taking off." - 2Duncan was a good King to his people."I have begun to plant thee, and will labor - To make thee full of growing."
"Shall blow the horrid deed in every eye, That tears shall drown the wind."
"We will proceed no further in this business. He hath honoured me of late," - 3Macbeth's tyranny led him to be violent to his people."Here let them lie till famine and the ague eat them up."
"If thou speak'st false, Upon the next tree shall thou hang alive till famine cling thee."
"Then, Macduff; what need I fear of thee? But yet I'll make assurance double sure." - 4Macbeth has blatant comparison's to the devil, and supernatural connotations."Not in the legions of horrid hell can come a devil more damn'd in evils to top Macbeth!"
"No; though thou call'st thyself a hotter name Than any is in hell." (Y SIWARD)
"The devil himself could not pronounce a title More hateful to mine ear." (Y SIWARD) - 5Macbeth can be seen as a careless, cruel tyrant."She should have died hereafter, there would have been a time for such a word."
"this fiend of Scotland,"
"Thou liest, abhorred tyrant. With my sword - I'll prove the lie thou speak'st." - 6Lady Macbeth uses Macbeth's masculinity against him."When you durst do it, then you were a man."
"Yet I do fear thy nature. It is too full of milk of human kindness."
"My hands are of your colour, but I shame to wear a heart so white."
"O proper stuff! This is the very painting of your fear." - 7Lady Macbeth teaches Macbeth to be decietful through manipulative means."Look like th' innocent flower, but be the serpent under't."
"A little water clears us of this deed."
"Give me the daggers."
"I may pour my spirits in thine ear. And chastise with the valour of my tongue - All that impedes thee from the golden round,” - 8Lady Macbeth can be cruel and intense in order to gain Macbeth's approval."Was the hope drunk Wherin you dress'd yourself? [...] And wakes it now, to look so green and pale."
"We fail? But screw your courage to the sticking-place and we'll not fail."
"pluck’d my nipple from his boneless gums and dash’d the brains out, had I so sworn as you have done to this" - 9Malcom considers being King of Scotland his duty.“what needful else - That calls upon us, by the grace of Grace – We will perform in measure, time and place.”
"What I am truly, Is thine and my poor country’s to command.” - 10Malcom is a good and inspiring King to his people."Now we'll together, and the chance of goodness - Be like our warranted quarrel!"
"Let grief convert the anger; blunt not the heart, enrage it." - 11Malcom has found a noble and trust-worthy confident in Macduff."Hail, King! for so thou art. Behold, where stands - Th'usurper's cursed head: the time is free." (MACDUFF)
“This noble passion […] hath from my soul- Wiped the black scruples, reconciled my thoughts - To thy good truth and honour.” - 12Macbeth betrays Lady Macbeth's trust by continuing their plot without her."Be innocent of the knowledge, dearest chuck."
"She should have died hereafter, there would have been time for such a word."
"The Thane of Fife had a wife - where is she know?"
"Hell is murky."
"My dearest partner of greatness." - 13Macbeth became paranoid and went mad after betraying the Great Chain of Being."Oh full of scorpions is my mind, dear wife."
"To be thus, is nothing - But to be safely thus."
"We have scorched the snake, not killed it."
"Macduff; what need I fear of thee? But yet I'll make assurance double sure." - 14Duncan trusted Macbeth absolutely, and was later betrayed by him."He was a gentlemen whom I built an absolute trust."
"What he hath lost, noble Macbeth hath won."
"We love him highly And shall continue our graces towards him."
"I have begun to plant thee and will labor - To make thee full of growing." - 15Macbeth betrayed the Great Chain of Being due to ambition to become King."I have no spur To prick the sides of my intent, but only Vaulting ambition."
"That is a step On which I must fall down, or else o'erleap, For in my way it lies." - 16Lady Macbeth betrayed the Great Chain of Being."Yet who would have thought the old man had so much blood in him."
"All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand."
"Give me the daggers."
"A little water clears us of this deed." - 17Macbeth pretended to be a good friend to Banquo, as a facade."I fear - Thou play'dst most foully for't."
"Our bloody cousins bestow'd In England [...] not confessing Their cruel parricide, filling their hearers With strange invention."
"Ride you this afternoon?" "Is't far you ride?" "Goes Fleance with you?" - 18Macbeth betrayed Banquo's trust, although they were originally close friends."We have scorched the snake, not killed it."
"He hath a wisdom that doth guide his valor - To act in safety."
"Thou may'st revenge - O slave!"
"Take any shape but that, and my firm nerves - Shall never tremble: or be alive again,
And dare me to the desert with thy sword.” - 19The witches betray Macbeth through their ambiguity."Macbeth. Thane of Cawdor. King thereafter."
"When the hurly-burly's done - When the battle's lost and won."
"Fair is foul and foul is fair. Hover through the fog and filthy air."
"By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes." - 20Lady Macbeth is a manipulative villain."Look like th' innocent flower, but be the serpent under't."
"A little water clears us of this deed."
"Give me the daggers."
"My hands are of your colour, but I shame to wear a heart so white." - 21Lady Macbeth has assosiations with evil spirits, which make her seem more villanous."Make thick my blood - Stop up the access and passage to remorse, - That no compunctious visitings of nature - Shake my fell purpose…” "Come, you spirits - That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, - And fill me from the crown to the toe topful - Of direst cruelty!”
"I may pour my spirits in thine ear," - 22Macbeth is a blood-thirsty, violent villain."His brandished steel Which smoked with bloody execution."
"Till he unseamed him from the nave to the chaps. And fixed his head upon our battlements."
"Blood will have blood."
"My soul is too charged With blood of thine already." - 23Macbeth has associations with the supernatural, adding to his evil portrayal."Not in the legions of horrid hell can come a devil more damn'd in evils to top Macbeth!"
"Thou call'st thyself a hotter name Than any is in hell."
"The devil himself could not pronounce a title More hateful to mine ear."
"Seyton! Seyton, I say!" - 24The Witches' ambiguity adds to their villanous characters."Double, double, toil and trouble. Fire burn and cauldron bubble!"
"[Thunder and lightning]"
"secret, black and midnight hags."
"Fair is foul, and foul is fair. Hover through the fog and filthy air."
"By the pricking of my thumb, something wicked this way comes." - 25The Witches' actions towards others show their true evil characters."Where hast thou been, sister?"..."Killing swine."
"I’ll drain him dry as hay. Sleep shall neither night nor day - Hang upon his penthouse lid;
He shall live a man forbid.” - 26The Thane of Fife, Macduff, can be seen as an honourable and noble hero."Let me find him, Fortune - And more I beg not."
"He is noble, wise, judicious and best knows the fits o' the season." (ross about macduff)
"Most sacrilegious murder hath broke open - The Lord's anointed temple."
"My voice is in my sword." - 27The Thane of Lochaber, Banquo, can be seen as a honourable and noble hero."Noble Banquo - That has no less deserved, nor must be known."
"Restrain in me the cursed thoughts."
"If I grow, the harvest is your own."
"He hath a wisdom that doth guide his valor - To act in safety." - 28The disorder of nature after the regicide takes place."contending 'gainst obedience, as they would make war with mankind."
"a falcon, towering her pride of place, was by a mousing owl, hawk'd at and kill'd."
"a great perturbation of nature to recieve at one the benefit of sleep."
"till Birnam Wood remove to Dunsinane." - 29The Regicide (Duncan's death) has broken the Great Chain of Being."Oh horror, horror, horror! Tongue nor heart cannot conceive nor name thee."
"Most sacrilegious murder hath broke open - The Lord's anointed temple."
"'Tis not for you to hear what I can speak." - 30The Regicide has badly affected Malcom and Donaldbain."Let us seek out some desolate shad and there - Weep our sad bosoms empty."
"This murderous shaft that's shot, hath not yet lighted, and our safest way is to avoid the aim."
"Malcom and Donaldbain, the king's two sons, are stol'n away and fled, which puts upon them suspicion of the deed." - 31Lady Macbeth subverted female behaviour, by taking control of their plot."When you durst do it, then you were a man."
"pluck’d my nipple from his boneless gums and dash’d the brains out, had I so sworn as you have done."
"My hands are of your colour, but I shame to wear a heart so white."
"Give me the daggers." - 32Lady Macbeth subverted female behaviour, by calling upon evil spirits.“Come, you spirits- That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here - And fill me from the crown to the toe topful - Of direst cruelty!”
“Make thick my blood - Stop up the access and passage to remorse, - That no compunctious visitings of nature- Shake my fell purpose…” - 33The Witches' spells portray their unnatural behaviour"Double, double, toil and trouble. Fire burn and cauldron bubble!"
"[Thunder and lightning]"
"secret, black and midnight hags"
"Fair is foul and foul is fair. Hover through the fog and filthy air."
"When the hurly-burly's done, When the battle's lost and won." - 34The Witches' way of talking to others is strange and unnatural."Killing swine."
"Thou shalt get kings, though thou be none."
"Not so happy, yet much happier! Not so great, yet much greater!"
"I'll drain him dry as hay. Sleep shall neither night nor day - Hang upon his penthouse lid," - 35Macbeth's disorder and paranoia after killing Duncan."Blood will have blood."
"My soul is too charged With blood of thine already."
"I fear - Thou played'st most foully for't."
"Thou liest, abhorred tyrant."
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