Who said? MACBETH

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"Out, damned spot! out, I say!"
Lady Macbeth Act 5 scene 1 - she is sleepwalking. Repetition. Suggests she is a disturbed character, maybe guilt has taken over her body and mind?
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"Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him."
Lady Macbeth Act 5 scene 1 - sleepwalking.Rhetorical question. Reference to the murder of King Duncan, shows that she is haunted by past events
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"Front to front. Bring thou this fiend of Scotland and myself; Within my sword's length set him."
Macduff Act 4 scene 3, having been told of the murder of his family. Language describing Macbeth as unnatural includes "fiend"
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"Receive what cheer you may: The night is long that never finds the day."
Malcolm (Duncan's son) Act 4 scene 3. rhyming couplet. Links back to Duncan's murder with symbolism of night and day
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"I fear, Thou play'dst most foully for't."
Banquo Act 3 scene 1. soliloquy - alone to audience. Macbeth has just been crowned King.Alliteration - repeated 'f' sound. Banquo questioning Macbeth's honesty. Link to unnatural order, weird sisters.
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"all you have done Hath been but for a wayward son, Spiteful and wrathful, who, as others do, Loves for his own ends, not for you."
Hecate. Act 3 scene 5. Rhyme. Describes Macbeth.
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"As by the strength of their illusion Shall draw him on to his confusion: He shall spurn fate, scorn death, and bear He hopes 'bove wisdom, grace and fear: And you all know, security Is mortals' chiefest enemy."
Hecate. Act 3 scene 5. rhyming couplets showing unnatural power. Macbeth is mere mortal. Demonstrates his lack of control.
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Jacobean England
Time when Macbeth was written. Patriarchal society. Superstition and witchcraft. Deeply religious beliefs - heaven and hell. Diving right of Kings King James I.
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Diving right of Kings and Natural Order
King is God's servant/voice/representative on earth. King is appointed by God, not by man. The belief that kings were answerable only to God is reflected by Macbeth’s unlawful claim to the crown being tragically doomed.
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Rhyming couplets, blank verse and prose
The witches speak in rhyming couplets to show how spells are chanted. This rhythm adds an almost light-hearted rhythm to their Witches voices, voice used when in power in contrast with style used when portraying a lesser being (or when losing sanity)
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Motifs
The motifs of sleep and blood run throughout Macbeth and both are used to signify the menace and destruction that ensues from the witches’ prophecies.
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False appearances
In this play apparent ‘fair’ is often ‘foul’ (I.1.9): hosts are murderers, women are not ‘gentle’ (II.3.80) and men are not ‘of woman born’ (IV.1.79).
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"Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him."

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Lady Macbeth Act 5 scene 1 - sleepwalking.Rhetorical question. Reference to the murder of King Duncan, shows that she is haunted by past events

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"Front to front. Bring thou this fiend of Scotland and myself; Within my sword's length set him."

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"Receive what cheer you may: The night is long that never finds the day."

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"I fear, Thou play'dst most foully for't."

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