Grade 9 Macbeth Quotes
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- Created on: 30-04-17 21:19
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- Macbeth Quotes
- Act 1
- Witches: Fair is foul, and foul is fair;/ hover through the fog and filthy air.
- upside down world -> forbodes the devistation in play (TAKE NOTE OF THE PUNCTUATION)
- But all's too weak for brave Macbeth
- everbody who comes to fight Mac are no match-significant theme of macbeth's enemies
- 'make thick my blood'/ 'and take my milk for gall'/ 'nor heaven peep through a blanket of the dark'
- I have given ****...plucked my ****** from his boneless gums and dashed the brains out
- vicious and evil emotional blackmail
- Witches: Fair is foul, and foul is fair;/ hover through the fog and filthy air.
- Act 2
- Hold, take my sword. There is husbandry in heaven:/ Their candles are all out
- something uneasy in the air, starless sky echoes Duncan's speech 'stars shine on deserving people, LM's quote on heaven, Macbeth's acts esp with banquo '3rd murderer: who did strike out the light?'
- 'make thick my blood'/ 'and take my milk for gall'/ 'nor heaven peep through a blanket of the dark'
- something uneasy in the air, starless sky echoes Duncan's speech 'stars shine on deserving people, LM's quote on heaven, Macbeth's acts esp with banquo '3rd murderer: who did strike out the light?'
- Macbeth's soliloque: theme of witchcraft runs throughout (ALSO INSINUATED BY THE POETRY), 'I see thee still...i see thee yet...i see thee still!'
- I heard a voice cry 'sleep no more! Macbeth does murder sleep' the innocent sleep
- [knocking within] repeated 3 times->witches
- Hold, take my sword. There is husbandry in heaven:/ Their candles are all out
- Act 3
- I have scorch'd the snake not kill'd it
- 'be the serpent that lies beneath', scorch'd has semantic field of trees also
- are you a man?
- Hecate: and a fatal end
- 'fatal' echoes LM-> 'Duncan's fatal entrance'
- witches act 1, tetrameter, Hecate Act 3, Iambic pentameter
- I have scorch'd the snake not kill'd it
- Act 4
- though the yeasty waves confound and shallow navigation up;
- continued metaphor from Act 1. M sees him as the sailor, scotland the ship
- though the yeasty waves confound and shallow navigation up;
- Act 5
- therein the patient must minister to himself
- male pronoun, talking about LM but makes it about M
- 'tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow'/ 'and all our yesterdays have lighted fools the way to dusty death'
- philosophical, sad, reflective. 3-> the witches
- uses language to reflect sadness-poetic-shows his reform.
- life's but a walking shadow
- he is now shadowing scotland
- therein the patient must minister to himself
- Act 1
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