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Macbeth - Act 1 quotes
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- 1The witches equivocation - the battleWhen the battle is lost and won
- 2when they will meet - topographyere the set of sun
- 3connects the witches to Macbeth for the first time x2fair is foul and foul is fair
so foul and fair a day I have not seen - 4topography - the witches chanthover through the fog and filthy air
- 5eponymous x4brave Macbeth
valiant cousin, worthy gentleman
what he hath lost, noble Macbeth hath won
worthy Macbeth - 6eponymous - his skills in fighting x2smoked with bloody execution
he unseamed him from the nave to th'chaps - 7supernatural/sensational - description of witches x6weird sisters
so withered and wild in their attire
look not like th'inhabitants o'th'earth
choppy finger
skinny lips
your beards - 8sensational/equivocation - Macbeth's prophecies x3all hail Macbeth, hail to thee thane of Glamis
all hail Macbeth, hail to thee, thane of Cawdor
all hail Macbeth, that shalt be king hereafter - 9banquo's prophecythou shalt get kings, though thou be none
- 10equivocatorsstay, you imperfect speakers
- 11supernatural/evil - the witchesinstruments of darkness
- 12supernatural/equivocation - solicitingsupernatural soliciting cannot be ill, cannot be good
- 13Macbeth's acceptance of the prophecyif chance will have me king, why chance may crown me
- 14Macbeth's jealousy - this is a step...this is a step on which I must fall down... for in my way it lies
- 15Macbeth's idlet not light see my black and deep desires
- 16the witches - more...more in them than mortal knowledge
- 17Macbeth's weaknesstoo full o'th'milk of human kindness
- 18metamorphosis/transgression - Lady Macbeth x5come you spirits that tend on mortal thoughts
unsex me here
fill me from the crown to the toe topfull of direst cruelty
make thick my blood
take my milk for gall, you murdering ministers - 19Lady Macbeth's intentions to help macbeth x2may pour my spirits in thine ear
chastise with the valour of my tongue - 20her true feelings are shown - how she greets Macbethgreat Glamis, worthy Cawdor
- 21his true self - how he greets lady Macbethmy dearest love
- 22your face...your face, my thane, is as a book where men may read strange matters
- 23look like...look like th'innocent flower, but be the serpent under't
- 24lady m's manipulationwhen you durst do it, then you were a man
- 25regicidethe deep damnation
- 26the extent of lady m's promsiehave plucked my nipple from his boneless gums and dashed the brains out, had I so sworn
- 27false face...false face must hide what false heart doth know
- 28the actour great quell
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- GCSE English Literature Flashcards on Macbeth - Act 1 quotes, created by James Scott-Myers on 18/10/2016.
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