macbeth flashcards

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macbeth speech repeats the witches
so foul and fair a day I have not seen
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macbeth believes he could be king
Glamis and thane of cawdor the greatest is behind
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macbeth (aside) sibilance cannot be bad cannot be good
this supernatural soliciting cannot be ill cannot be good
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macbeth has no reason to kill Duncan
i have no spur... only vaulting ambition which o'erleaps itself and falls on the other
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macbeth hallucination takes as a reason to kill duncan
Is this a dagger I see before me, the handle toward my hand
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macbeth hallucination blood=guilt
will all great neptunes ocean wash this blood clean from my hand
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macbeth mental frailty
oh full of scorpions is my mind dear wife
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macbeth alliteration list
now I am cabined cribbed confined bound to saucy doubts and fears
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macbeth reptition guilt blood
it will have blood they say blood will have blood
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macbeth bloody vulgar reflection of hero at start
I'll fight till from my bones my flesh be hacked give me my armour
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witches rhyme and ambiguity all is not as it seems
fair is foul foul is fair hover through the fog and filthy air
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witches single macbeth out as wicked
something wicked this way comes
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Duncan too trusting of lady mac
fair and noble hostess
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lady macbeth metaphor bible reference
look like the innocent flower but be the serpent under't
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lady macbeth calls macbeth childish and weak
letting i dare not wait upon "I would" like the cat in the adage
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lady macbeth banquet hallucination chair
why do you make such faces? when all is done you look but on a stool
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lady macbeth hallucinates mental frailty
out damned spot! out, I say!
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banquo suspects macbeth killed duncan
I fear thou play'dst most foully for it
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macduff finds out macbeth killed wife and son
bleed bleed poor country great tyranny
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macduff tells macbeth he wasnt of woman born
macduff was from his mothers womb untimely ripped
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theme: ambition
motivates macbeth to commit deeds "I have no spur...
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theme:loyalty betrayal
loyalty rewarded betrayal punished the macbeths pretend to be loyal
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theme:kingship
good rulers and bad. bad king kills and is false.they believe good kings are picked by god
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theme: good and evil
macbeth is noble at start ambition tempts him and evil is linked to gender
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theme: supernatural
witches/ power seems limited/ drive the action of the play/visions could be ambiguous
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theme: reality and appearance
characters hide thoughts and appear different to truth. "look the innocent flower... characters speak in paradoxes
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Glamis and thane of cawdor the greatest is behind

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macbeth believes he could be king

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this supernatural soliciting cannot be ill cannot be good

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i have no spur... only vaulting ambition which o'erleaps itself and falls on the other

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Is this a dagger I see before me, the handle toward my hand

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