Act 1 Flashcards
(18 cards)
What is the weather like in scene 1
thunder and lightning
during staging- attention grabbing
pathetic fallacy
negative connotations
themes: links to God
scene 1: - “where shall we three m____ again?
In thunder l____ or rain? “
witch 1
meet lightening
in media res
triadic structure
rhetorical question
links to daemonology
themes: supernatural, challenges women in jacobean society, evil
scene 1- “when the h___ -burlys’s b____ lost and w ___.”
: witch 2
hurly, battle and won
paradoxical statement
rhyming
links to daemonology
themes: supernatural, challenges women in jacobean society, evil
scene 1: - “fair is f ___ and foul is f___, Hover through the f___ air”
: all witches
foul, fair and filthy
paradoxical oxymoron
chiasmus
fricatives
negative connotations
metaphor for the unknown (fog is thick and can not see through)
links to daemonology
themes: supernatural, challenges women in jacobean society, evil
scene 2: “ brave m___ (well he deserves that name) , disdaining fortune, with his brandish steel which s___ with b____ exectution”
captain
macbeth smoked bloody
epithet
positive connotations
double entendre
metaphor
links to patriachal society
defying God- forboading
themes: appearance vs reality, power, blood
scene 2: duncan- “O v___ cousin, w___ gentleman”
valiant worthy
adjectives
links to partriachal society
themes: appearance vs reality, power
scene 2: “unseam’d him from the n__ to the chaps”
captain
nave
power
status
scene 3: “All hail, Macbeth! Hail to thee, T___ of Glamis! / All hail, Macbeth! H___ to thee, Thane of Cawdor! / All hail, Macbeth, that shalt be k___ hereafter!”
witches
Thane hail king
repetition
forshadowing
power status supernatural ambition
scene 4: - “stars hide your f___ let not l___ see my b__ and deep desires”
macbeth
fires light black
divine right of kings
statuse ambition hamartia
alliteration
juxtaposition causing contrast
semantic field of duality
symbolism for God before he meets macbeth
scene 5: “ I fear thy n__, It is too full o’thmilk of h___ kindness”
LM
nature human
presentation of women
manliness
makes her a villain in eyes of jacobean audience
digging at his masculinity
although he is a soldier he is not a murdere ny nature
scene 5: “ come you s___ tend to my m___ thoughts, u___ me here and fill me from the c__ to the toe topfull, O direst c__ make my blood thick”
LM
spirits unsex crown cruelty
alliteration
personification
supernatural evil
contradicts comventional jacobean woman
motif of blood
rid her of her feminity and make her blood cold
scene 5: “come to my woman’s b___ and take my m___ for gall”
LM
evil supernatural
witches
condracditcs jacobean woman - main role is to raise children and she wants to rid her ability of doing so and replace it with evil
scene 5: “act like the i___ flower but be the s___ beneath it”
innocent serpant
similie
duality
appearance vs reality
juxtapose
imperative- shows the power
evil
condradicts women expectations
biblical allusion of the snake in the garden of eden
scene 6: “ hath made his p___ and procreant c___”
Banquo
pendent cradle
motif of sleep
talking about duncan
forboads how ducan will die in a place of safety
connotations of nest and safety
scene 6: “ give me your h__”
King Duncan
links to reasoning behind why shakespeare wrot this play
symbol of trust/oath
dramatic irony
scene 7: “I have no s__ to prick the sides of my i__ but only vaulting a__”
spur (driving force) ambition
macbeth
personification
he has no driving force to push his intentions forwards except for ambition
imagery of amibitiom being a horse
shows how strong his ambition is
scene 7: “when you d___ do it then you were a m__”
durst man
LM
demonstrates who has the power in this scene
masculinity
power
femininity
