Macbeth: Supernatural Flashcards
Act 1 Scene 3
beards on women
‘You should be women,/And yet your beards forbid me to intepret/That you are so’
- SUPERNATURAL, WITCHES
- CONT: confirms they are the same witches James I believed in
- first meeting of the witches
Banquo
Act 1 Scene 3
isanroot
‘Have we eaten on the insane root/That takes the reason prisoner’
- SUPERNATURAL, WITCHES
- first meeting of witches
- may think they hallucinated witches
Banquo
Act 1 Scene 3
devil truths
‘What, can the devil speak true?’
- SUPERNATURAL, WITCHES
- witches associated with devil and starting to believe them
Banquo
Act 1 Scene 3
instruments of darkness
‘to win us to our harm/The instruments of darkness tell us truths’
- WITCHES, SUPERNATURAL, DARKNESS
- Banquo saying witches have bad intentions
Banquo
Act 1 Scene 3
fair is foul but ill
‘cannot be ill, cannot be good.’
- WITCHES
- LNK fair is foul ….
Macbeth
Act 1 Scene 5
unsex
’ Come you spirits/That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here…to the toe top full/of direst cruelty’
- SUPERNATURAL, GENDER
- witch like language, wants to become less womanly, not strong enough to kill duncan yet
LM
Act 1 Scene 5
milk to gall
‘And take my milk for gall, you murdering
ministers’
- SUPERNATURAL, GENDER, WITCHES
- witch like language, calling spirits to get stronger
- after macbeth letter
LM
Act 4 Scene 1
mcbth description when he pulls up witches lair
‘By the pricking of my thumbs/Something wicked this way comes’
- SUPERNATURAL, WITCHES
- Macbeth comes for more infomation
Second Witch
Act 4 Scene 1
mcbth calls the witches when he walks in
‘You secret, black, and midnight hags’
- SUPERNATURAL, WITCHES, DECEPTION, DARKNESS
- when mcbth is in the lair of the witches
Macbeth
Act 5 Scene 9
butcher mcbth
‘cruel ministers/Of this dead butcher and his fiend like queen’
- SUPERNATURAL, RELIGION
- Ministers LNK to LM monologue
- no honour, butcher not warrior
- Malcolm at the end of the play
Malcolm
