Guilt Flashcards
1
Q
“Armed rhinoceros”
A
(Hyperbole)
When facing Banquo’s ghost, Macbeth exclaims that he’d rather face an armed rhinoceros (viscous animals) as the ghost reminds him of all his guilt
2
Q
“Wake Duncan with the knocking, I would thou coulds’t”
A
Macbeth feels guilty after murdering a morally good king, and disrupting the divine right of kings, he suggests that he would wake Duncan up if he could, and he’s reflecting on his bad deeds
3
Q
“Sleep no more”
A
After Macbeth murdered the king, he immediately feels guilty.
James I had recently been targeted in the gun powder plot, and this is a message that if you murder the king, you won’t get away with it and there will be immediate consequences
