showing Macbeth's skill in violence, 'carved' suggests crude cuts similar to a butcher (which he is called at the end of the play)
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'stuck his head atop our battlements'
showing how he treats traitors, also showing that he decapitated Macdounld (Macbeth was also beheaded at the play's climax showing a cyclical structure)
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'his blade smok'd with bloody execution'
'smok'd' could suggest Macbeth's passion for killing because smoking is what comes off something that is hot and hot suggests warmth/love, also shows that he has killed a large magnitude of people that it is hot enough to smoke
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'look like a flower, but be the serpent under't'
look innocent but be the devil in hiding
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'stars hide your fires, hid my deep dark desires'
stars were used to predict the future/fate, so by Macbeth telling the stars to hide shows that he does not want anyone finding out about his ambition and what he will do to fulfil them
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'wear a visage that hides your heart's desires'
showing that people should lie, look innocent so other people cannot find out your ulterior motive
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'strange screams of death'
showing that the people of Scotland are suffering
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'tis said they ate each other'
Duncan's noble horses known to be the best of their kind (horses are well known to be friendly) are now cannibalising on each other, showing chaos has seeped into the world because of Macbeth's actions
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'a mouse eating owl swooped on the hawk'
a lowly creature killed the king of birds, further showing that nature has been reverse, chaos
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'turn hell hound, turn'
associating Macbeth with a devilish creature, showing that Macbeth is seen as a evil being
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'my heart cries out for Scotland'
Macduff's patriotism is being shown, Shakespeare is presenting what the idle man should be
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'fair is foul, and foul is fair'
standards are being swapped, things that were originally seen as good are now bad
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'tis is a day as fair and foul which I have ever seen'
showing a connection between Macbeth and the Witches, Macbeth is already influenced by the Witches at the beginning of the play
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'come you spirits that tend on mortal thoughts unsex me here'
Lady Macbeth sees femininity as a weakness and wants to replace it with masculinity, Lady Macbeth is conspiring with the supernatural
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'do not hear the bell Duncan for it will summon you to Heaven or to Hell'
God is warning Duncan about Macbeth, Macbeth is convinced on what he is going to do next and he believes that the bell is Duncan's death bell
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'the Butcher King and his Fiend like Queen'
Macbeth and Lady Macbeth will be remembered as tyrants
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'can Neptune's oceans wash this colour off my hands'
Macbeth is turning to a pagan God to help him get rid of his guilt of regicide, Macbeth is now a heretic
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'my hands of your colour but I will be shamed to have a heart so white'
Lady Macbeth is shaming Macbeth, emasculating him, warping Macbeth's views on what is masculine
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'are you a man'
Lady Macbeth mocking Macbeth inability to stay calm
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'If you can look into the seeds of time and tell which seeds will grow and which will not then tell me'
Banquo is also ambitious, Banquo wants to know his future showing that he is not a pure man as originally believed
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'it says it is day but, night strangles the traveling lamp'
Showing the supernatural has now warped the world, chaos has now changed the concept of time, darkness has now replaced the light of day
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Card 2
Front
'stuck his head atop our battlements'
Back
showing how he treats traitors, also showing that he decapitated Macdounld (Macbeth was also beheaded at the play's climax showing a cyclical structure)
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