act 2 Flashcards
(16 cards)
“keep allegiance clear”
Banquo- loyalty to Duncan
“starless night”
setting- natural world, pathetic fallacy, mysterious
“Is this a dagger I see infront of me”
Macbeth- state of mind- uncertain, corrupt/tempted by violence, male leaders not meant to feel doubt in patriarchy
“I had most need of blessing, and Amen/Stuck in my throat.”
Macbeth- so evil he cannot even resort back to religion
“A little water clears us of this deed.”
Lady macbeth- contrasts with “Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood clean from my hand?” from macbeth showing their differences in confidence, she thinks this is an insignificant deed, sanitising the murder, women are wicked/unfeeling-supports james I after death of popular female monarch elizabeth I, “us”=equal to husband
“we will go mad”
Macbeth- ironic, philosphying his own death
“Sleep no more, Macbeth does murder sleep”
Macbeth- third person, narrating his own story from other perspective, reputation, guilt, madness, xenia, breaking natural law like witches reference to evil like his deed
“provokes that desire but hampers ability”
Porter- alcohol affects sexual attraction for a man, vulgar to think a disgusting man having sex, compares to LM “drunken made me bold”
“strange screams of death”
Lennox’s wife- pathetic fallacy, syballances echoing screams, natural law broken/screaming in response to Macbeth’s murder
“breach in nature”
Macbeth- against natural law, guilt, scared of how nature will punish him (witches)
“there is daggers in mans smiles”
Duncan son’s- daggers are motif for messy violence, correlates with LM&M murder and M’s hallucination, metaphor for inherent evil within man
“bell invites me/ for its knell that summons thee to heaven or hell”
macbeth- symbolic, sign of fate/omen, ryhming tercet- sinister sense, determined
Why, worthy Thane, You do unbend your noble strength, to think so brain-sickly of things. Go get some water…They must lie there: go carry them
lady macbeth- taking lead on path to kingship, imperative verbs highlights authority/leadership over their ambition driven rise. highlights jacobean anxieties of women becoming too powerful- chaos/power corrupt
“knocking”
macbeth- metaphor for guilt knocking on his mind
“my hands are the same colour as yours, but i shame to wear a heart so white”
lady macbeth- same level of guilt, difference in remorse- lack of morality
“A falcon, towering in her pride of place,/Was by a mousing owl hawked at, and killed.”
old man- the divine right of kings meant hierarchy should not be challenged, macbeth has gone against that and disturbed natural world
