ACT 2-3 Flashcards
(6 cards)
1
Q
What quote refers to Macbeth as the devil?
A
“but this place is too cold for hell. ill devil-porter it no further”
2
Q
what does the quote “here’s an equivocator that could swear in both the scales against either scale” present.
A
reference to gun powder plot and links to regicide as plot was a plan to kill king Duncan
3
Q
what quote links to the great chain of being?
A
“the night has been unruly:”
4
Q
“o, yet I do repent me of my fury, that I did kill them”
A
explores the idea that he regrets killing Banquo. links to deception
5
Q
“in the great hand of God i stand and thence
A
against the undivulged pretence i fight of treasonous malice”
6
Q
“these daggers in men’s smiles ;”
A
being deceptive shows he is nervous by his surroundings.
