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Flashcards in ACT 2-3 Deck (6)
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1
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What quote refers to Macbeth as the devil?

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“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?

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“the night has been unruly:”

4
Q

“o, yet I do repent me of my fury, that I did kill them”

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explores the idea that he regrets killing Banquo. links to deception

5
Q

“in the great hand of God i stand and thence

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against the undivulged pretence i fight of treasonous malice”

6
Q

“these daggers in men’s smiles ;”

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being deceptive shows he is nervous by his surroundings.