English Macbeth

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Witches: Structure
When shall we three meet again? In thunder, lightening or in rain? - Rhyming Couplets - like they are chanting a spell.
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Language - intro
The battlefield; thunder and lightening - Opens with pathetic fallacy to represent the turmoil in Scotland - HOSTILE, TURBULENT WEATHER - bleak and barren.
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Witch 1 - Act 1 Scene 1
When the battles lost and won - Ambiguous Paradox.
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Witch 3 - Act 1 Scene 1
That will be ere the set of sun - Soothsayer (predict the future) - Before sunset.
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Witch 1 - Act 1 Scene 1
I come, Graymalkin - Calling out for their familiars (Witches pets etc black cats, toads).
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All Witches - Act 1 Scene 1
Fair is foul and foul is fair - "Fair" = Good, "Foul" = Bad ; Oblique reference to Macbeth.
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All Witches - Act 1 Scene 1
"fog and filthy air" - Gloomy atmosphere - alliteration of F.
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Intro - Act 1 Scene 2
"The kings headquarters: alarium within" - Sense of order controlled by the king.
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Captain - Act 1 Scene 2
Doubtful it stood, as two spent swimmers that do cling together and choke their art - similie - Battle is deadlocked.
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Captain - Act 1 Scene 2
"fortune" and "whore" - personified as women
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Captain - Act 1 Scene 2
"But alls too weak for brave Macbeth - well he deserves that name -" -
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Captain - Act 1 Scene 2
"Brandish'd steel" - Merciless, ruthless, professional.
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Captain - Act 1 Scene 2
"Which smok'd with bloody execution"
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Captain - Act 1 Scene 2
"Like Valour's minion cary'd out his passage" - similie - Macbeth is the servant (minion) of valour itself.
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Captain - Act 1 Scene 2
"Till he unseam'd him from the nave to th'chaps and fix'd his head upon our battlements" - "unseam'd" - split him open - Macbeth won the war - He cut him from the bellybutton to the jaw.
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Duncan (King) - Act 1 Scene 2
"O valiant cousin" - "valiant" means brave - "cousin" means they are related.
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Captain - Act 1 Scene 2
"Shipwrecking storms and direful thunders" - witches prediction.
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Captain - Act 1 Scene 2
"As sparrows, eagles or the hare, the lion" - likens Macbeth to preditors - Macbeth is not scared at all.
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Captain - Act 1 Scene 2
"Bathe in reeking wounds" - Like a blood bath.
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Witch 1 - Act 1 Scene 3
"I'll drain him dry as hay: Sleep shall neither night nor day" - Form of torture - Witch will seduce him.
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Theme - Act 1 Scene 3
Order vs Chaos - Natural vs Unnatural
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All Witches - Act 1 Scene 3
The weird sisters, hand in hand, posters of the sea and land, thus do go, about, about, Thrice to thine, and thrice to mine, and thrice again, to make up nine. Peace, the charms wound up" - Rhythm - Incantation (Spell).
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Macbeth - Act 1 Scene 3
"So foul and fair a day I have not seen" - Echos words of witches.
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Banquo - Act 1 Scene 3
"So wither'd and so wild in their attire" - unnatural
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Banquo - Act 1 Scene 3
"look not like th'inhabitants o'th'earth" - unnatural beings.
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Banquo - Act 1 Scene 3
"beards forbid" - unnatural and man like.
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Witch 1 - Act 1 Scene 3
"lesser than Macbeth, and greater" - Will not be king but will be happier - PARADOX.
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Context
Banquo is one of King James' ancestors (the play Macbeth was written for King James so obviously Banquo is going to be a good person).
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Macbeth - Act 1 Scene 3
"The Thane of Cawdor lives a prosperous gentleman" - foreshadowing - dramatic irony - death sentence hanging over him - the audience knows but the characters don't.
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Macbeth - Act 1 Scene 3
"Wwith such prophetic greeting? Speak, I charge you" - declarative sentence - tries to give them orders to obey.
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Banquo - Act 1 Scene 3
"insane root" - madness.
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Act 1 Scene 3
Everyone is bigging up Macbeth - ironic - foreshadowing.
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Ross - Act 1 Scene 3
"For it is thine" - Taster of a greater thing to come.
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Banquo - Act 1 Scene 3
"The instruments of darkness tells us truths;" - He is suspicious of the witches because they say somethings to get trust then betray them.
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Macbeth's soliloquy - Act 1 Scene 3
"Cannot be ill, cannot be good" - PARADOX - Witches tell some truth then betray them.
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Macbeth's soliloquy - Act 1 Scene 3
"Against the use of nature?" - Theme of natural vs unnatural.
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Macbeth - Act 1 Scene 3
"If chance will have me king, why chance may crown me Without my stir" - Chance will decide what will happen, Macbeth is not getting involved.
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Banquo - Act 1 Scene 3
"Worthy Macbeth, we stay upon your leisure" - Waiting for Macbeth
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Macbeth - Act 1 Scene 3
"With things forgotten" - Lying to Banquo - they are meant to be best friends - he said he was thinking about what happened before but he wasn't.
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Macbeth - Act 1 Scene 3
"The interim having weigh'd it, let us speak our free hearts each to other" - irony - he will not really tell the truth.
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Card 2

Front

The battlefield; thunder and lightening - Opens with pathetic fallacy to represent the turmoil in Scotland - HOSTILE, TURBULENT WEATHER - bleak and barren.

Back

Language - intro

Card 3

Front

When the battles lost and won - Ambiguous Paradox.

Back

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Card 4

Front

That will be ere the set of sun - Soothsayer (predict the future) - Before sunset.

Back

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Card 5

Front

I come, Graymalkin - Calling out for their familiars (Witches pets etc black cats, toads).

Back

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