act 1 Flashcards
(20 cards)
“when the battles lost and won”
witches- 2 sides to each story, appearance vs reality, duality
“fair is foul and foul is fair, hover through fog and flithy air”
witches- good and bad can exist at the same time, duality, disorder, imagery; trochaic meter with catalytic foot, rhythmic beat internal rhythm highlights otherness and creates eeriness; metaphorically consuming corruption, gothic.
scene 1 setting- thunder and lightening
thunderstorm- dramatic, desolate
pathetic fallacy, incites chaos , witches believed to control elements
“Like valour’s minion carved out his passage”
Captain- macbeth kills anybody in his way, bloodthirsty foreshadows future events
“thunders break”
Captain- associates macbeth with witches
“That not look like inhabitants of the earth”
Banquo- first to address witches, breaking natural law
“Let not light see my black and deep desires”
Macbeth- Aside- his conflict between his ambition and morality, foreshadowing, suppression, metaphor
“The Prince of Cumberland! That is a step on which I must fall down, or else o’erleap”
Macbeh- Aside- ambition and evil thoughts
“This castle hath a pleasant seat”
Duncan- dramatic irony, appearance vs reality
“Be so much more the man” “when you durst do it, then you were a man”
toxic masculinity, role reversal- woman is more dominant rather than the man
“and dash’d the brains out”
Lady Macbeth- shockingly violent to audience, brutal, numb to any motherly feeling, contrast of babies with murder
“Come, you spirits… unsex me here!”
Lady Macbeth- embraces supernatural compared to macbeth, rejects traditional female standards and patriarchy,
“Look like the innocent flower/But be the serpent under’t.”
Lady Macbeth- innocence/vulnerability vs evil, biblical reference to garden of eden/ devil, appearance vs reality
“like a rat without a tail”
witches- motif, transformation, witch stereotype, incomplete animals
“ill do ill do and ill do” “munched and munched and munched”
witches- semantic field of 3 empathized by diacopes, inversion holy trinity, supernatural. repetitive- sisterly community, further niversion, not expected upon wicked community
“valiant cousin” “eagle” “lion”
brave resolution- fufills tragic hero
“weird sisters”
witches- weird- old english term wyrd- fate, classical mythology
“your face, my thane, is a book where men may read strange matters”
lady macbeth- condensing tone highlighted by caesuras, macbeth unable to conceal in same manner as lady macbeth
“had he not resembled my father as he slept, i had done’t
lady macbeth- sense of endearmeant, guilt compares to her manipulation and power. contributes to mental breakdown later
Lady Macbeth: “
Macbeth: “When?”
Lady Macbeth: “Now.”
Macbeth: “As I descended?”
Lady Macbeth: “Ay.”
speak in stichomythia, contrasts with harmonious flow earlier, close loving relationship is ending, macbeth is unfocused and guilty
