Macbeth

Macbeth

1. "prithee peace"

   • This one line does not fit with the iambic pentameter meaning that peace will be short lived
     • Theme of kingship theme of fate

2. "Stay you imperfect speakers"

   • The word speaker comes from the French word prophete
     • Theme of supernatural and the role of the witches

3. "whose horrid image doth unfix my hair"

   • Even without lady macbeth there Macbeth is already thinking about killing the king showing his vaulting ambition
     • Theme of appearance and reality and theme of ambition the theme of insanity

4. "My dearest partner of greatness"

   • showing that in Macbeth's eyes he and lady Macbeth are equal also has some business connotations
     • Theme of love and theme of insanity

5. "hide your fires ..... and deep desires"

   • Macbeth is rhyming after meeting the witches so he speaks similarly to the witches (in Macbeth's aside)
     • Theme of the supernatural and the Theme of appearance vs. reality

6. "Poisoned chalice to our own lips"

   • In his soliloquy he says that ambition leads people to their downfall foreshowing what's going to happen
     • Theme of ambition and how is Macbeth presented in the play

7. "Macbeth hath murdered sleep"

   • saying that whislt murdering Duncan he also killed his innonce because in the bible it says no wicked

8. "now witchcraft celebrates"

   • he no longer sees them as evil and now them Macbeth has come into succession witchcraft has celebrated

9. "Traquin's ravishing strides"

   • traquin was a violent roman solider

10. "will all great Neptune's oceans wash this blood clean from my hands? No this my hand will rather the multitudinous sea in incarnadine"

    • The word incarnadine shows that blood will never wash off and instead will turn the water red

11. "the fountain of you're blood is stopp'd"

    • Macbeth has turned the natural water red and has stopped the fountain by corrupting it

12. "sennet is sounded"

    • a sennet is usally only sounded when a king enters Macbeth wants to show off his status

13. "he sleeps well"

    • Macbeth is talking about Duncan and s jealous of Duncan even in his death because Duncan is innocent"

14. "god be with you"

    • instead of god be with us because he knows he is beyond even gods help

15. " - Macbeth shall sleep no more"

    • sleep is innocent so the fact that he can't sleep anymore shows that with Duncan murder he has murdered his own innocence . also the dash shows interrupt sleep.

16. "Had I but died an hour before this chance"

    • enjambment used as well as false sorrow

17. "i have no spur", ENTER Lady macbeth

    • creates visula irony becuase hes talking about how he has no motivation

18. "seyton my amour"

19. "his virtues will plead like angles"

20. "my mind is full of scorpions"

21. hear it not duncan for it's rnell that sumons the to heaven or hell"

22. "i will not kiss the ground below young malcomes feet"